Signs and Sight: Jacques Bertin and the Visual Language of Structuralism

An Analysis of Narrative Structure in Interstellar and Ready Player One

“…Therefore, structuralism is suitable for examining the text and its practice derived from Ferdinand de Saussure's perspective (Campolo, 2020). In short, structuralism is a theoretical and philosophical framework in line with social science.…”

“…He proposes that structuralism is related to unveiling the common structural principles underlined by the specific history, cultural variable, and myth. These structural principles involve logical characteristics and the universality of human consciousness that classify and produce empirical examples and cultural myths (Campolo, 2020).…”

Accessible Visualization via Natural Language Descriptions: A Four-Level Model of Semantic Content

“…And, since our model focuses on English sentences and canonical chart types, extensions to other languages and bespoke charts may be warranted. Within the semiotic tradition, Christian Metz (a contemporary of Bertin's) emphasized the pluralistic quality of graphics [18]: the semantic content conveyed by visualizations depends not only on their graphical sign-system, but also on various "social codes" such as education, class, expertise, and -we hasten to include -ability. Our evaluation with blind and sighted readers (as well as work studying how charts are deployed in particular discourse contexts [3,44,46,62]) lends credence to Metz's conception of graphics as pluralistic: different readers will have different ideas about what makes visualizations meaningful (Fig.…”