The Meaning of a Scientific Image: Case Study in Nanoscience a Semiotic Approach |
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Authors: | Catherine Allamel-Raffin |
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Affiliation: | (1) University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France, IRIST- EA 3424 |
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Abstract: | This paper proposes a new approach for analysing daily activities in a laboratory. The case study presented is an analysis of shop-talk around a microscope. In addition to the classical approaches, such as ethnomethodology and anthropology of science, I argue that a microsemiotic approach could be useful to better understand what is at stake. The semiotic approach I shall use here was proposed by a group of Belgian semioticians: Groupe μ. This semiotic approach leads to a constructivist point of view: the meaning of a visual representation is progressively constructed and is very context-dependent. This semiotic approach is fruitful because it allows a very precise analysis of shop-talk recorded data, and gives a better account of the materiality of visual representations. |
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