The company may thus be framed as being solid as a rock. We will explore the vocabulary of semantic theory in Chapter Four of our textbook. The notes in the next section identify concepts in semiotic theory. We will apply the terms from these two models of communication by interpreting the symbols used in photographs that you can link to from the Module Focus section below. I'll make a few comments about each.
Realistic photographs look like the person, space, or object depicted.
This association is arbitrary and may hold no relationship to what it represents. The correspondence between the object of representation and what it represents are both historically and culturally determined. The meaning of an index is limited to one's interpretation within a culture or social group. A symbol, like an icon and index, refers to something which it is not. In this sense we can say, that object is symbolic.