Abstract
Argumentation is essentially dialogical, hence based on verbal disputation. Nonetheless, other semiotic resources than language may play a substantial role in argumentative circumstances. In this article, different argumentative functions played by photographs are explored, based on an unusual corpus for the field. People working in Mozambican Community Multimedia Centers (CMCs) were interviewed, in order to reconstruct the social meaning they confer to such places. To facilitate the exchange of meanings between interviewees and interviewers, who had different cultural and experiential backgrounds, interviewees were requested to take pictures of something they liked, something they didn’t like, and something they perceived as particularly representative of their CMC. Pictures were then presented and commented by participants during their interview. By means of analytical reconstructions, the major argumentative roles played by photographs in the interviews were identified, as well as their semiotic function in respect to interviewees’ words. Argumentative analysis also broadened and enriched the method of photo-driven interviews, and added a further interpretative access to analysis of social representations.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Introduction: Multimodality in argumentation
- The thinness of multimodal argument: The problem of under–specification
- Discussing discourse modalities in argument theory: Reconsidering a paradigm
- Multimodal argumentation: Beyond the verbal/visual divide
- The thickness of multimodal argument: The virtues of condensation
- Visual rhetorical argumentation
- Multimodal meaning-construction and the logical structure of arguments
- It’s all about logics?! Analyzing the rhetorical structure of multimodal filmic text
- The argumentative and rhetorical function of multimodal metonymy
- Multimodality in the analysis, design, and support of argumentative activities
- On the production of a multimodal news item: An argumentative approach
- Argumentation in participant-driven photo interviews: A case in ICT for development in Mozambique
- The collaborative dimensions of argument maps: A socio-visual approach
- Peirce's rhetoric and methodeutic
- Introduction: Peirce’s rhetoric and methodeutic
- Peirce’s “Ideas, stray or stolen, about scientific writing” and the relationship between methodeutic, speculative rhetoric, and the universal art of rhetoric
- The problematics of truth and solidarity in Peirce’s rhetoric
- Speculative rhetoric, methodeutic, and Peirce’s hexadic sign-systems
- Methodeutic and the order of inquiry
Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Introduction: Multimodality in argumentation
- The thinness of multimodal argument: The problem of under–specification
- Discussing discourse modalities in argument theory: Reconsidering a paradigm
- Multimodal argumentation: Beyond the verbal/visual divide
- The thickness of multimodal argument: The virtues of condensation
- Visual rhetorical argumentation
- Multimodal meaning-construction and the logical structure of arguments
- It’s all about logics?! Analyzing the rhetorical structure of multimodal filmic text
- The argumentative and rhetorical function of multimodal metonymy
- Multimodality in the analysis, design, and support of argumentative activities
- On the production of a multimodal news item: An argumentative approach
- Argumentation in participant-driven photo interviews: A case in ICT for development in Mozambique
- The collaborative dimensions of argument maps: A socio-visual approach
- Peirce's rhetoric and methodeutic
- Introduction: Peirce’s rhetoric and methodeutic
- Peirce’s “Ideas, stray or stolen, about scientific writing” and the relationship between methodeutic, speculative rhetoric, and the universal art of rhetoric
- The problematics of truth and solidarity in Peirce’s rhetoric
- Speculative rhetoric, methodeutic, and Peirce’s hexadic sign-systems
- Methodeutic and the order of inquiry