Date of Award
2014
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Departmental Honors
Department
Languages, Philosophy and Speech Communication
Abstract
Within the field of Communication Studies, researchers attempt to define culture and often explain it as shared meanings and values among a group of people. Another subsection of Communication Studies includes the study of how images communicate: the field of visual rhetoric. This paper combines concepts from intercultural communication and visual rhetoric in order to better understand German culture. By examining two culturally significant eras of German artwork through the lens of visual rhetoric analysis, this study seeks to better understand German culture and its values. By analyzing the visual communication of historically significant photographs, one can find common meanings and values deemed important by the nations as a whole. The images both depict pre-existing cultural values and can also alter cultural norms through the depiction of values as being desirable or undesirable.
Recommended Citation
Halversen, Taylor, "A Visually Determined Deutschland: Visual Rhetoric Analysis of German Culture" (2014). Undergraduate Honors Capstone Projects. 154.
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/honors/154
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Faculty Mentor
Bradford J. Hall