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- Title
Quel est l'apport de la sémiotique visuelle à la réflexion sur « l'objectivité » des images scientifiques?
- Authors
ALLAMEL-RAFFIN, CATHERINE
- Abstract
Images produced by researchers in their laboratories or scientific illustrators have to fulfill a number of requirements to be included in scientific publications. First and foremost, they must be regarded as "objective". But what does that mean? Contrary to what one might think, the meta-norm of objectivity is often poorly defined. My contribution to the discussion on this point is structured as follows: first, I seek to identify the "objectifying modalities" that determine the presence of images in scientific publications. I then show how visual semiotics helps to shed irreplaceable light on procedures at work in the production of images that satisfy the requisite of "objectivity". My entire analysis is based on empirical data collected during ethnographic surveys in different scientific fields: surface sciences and surgery.
- Subjects
SCIENTIFIC illustration; ACQUISITION of scientific publications; SEMANTICS; BIOLOGICAL interfaces; SEMIOTICS
- Publication
Signata, 2019, Issue 10, p275
- ISSN
2032-9806
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.4000/signata.2294