Le visuel et ses tentations métalinguistiques : un essai exploratoire

This article explores the potential of visual language as a metalinguistic tool, examining its unique capacity to articulate and model meaning through density and exemplification. The study investigates the tension between the visual’s taciturn nature and its expressive richness, focusing on its role in mediating between representation and abstraction. By integrating perspectives from semiotics and cultural studies, the text highlights the visual medium’s ability to synthesize and reconfigure complex relationships within discursive frameworks. The analysis emphasizes the interplay between visual forms, their cultural contexts, and their methodological implications for semiotics, suggesting that visual language can act as both an analytical framework and a dynamic site for cultural meaning-making.