Title

Visual Communication and the Map: How Maps as Visual Objects Convey Meaning in Specific Contexts

Author Info

Amy Propen, University of MinnesotaFollow

Recommended Citation

Postprint version. Published in Technical Communication Quarterly, Volume 16, Issue 2, January 1, 2007, pages 233-254.

NOTE: At the time of publication, the author Amy Propen was not yet affiliated with Cal Poly.

The definitive version is available at https://doi.org/10.1080/10572250709336561.

Abstract

This article reports the results of a case study of two maps, produced by the National Marine Fisheries Service and the Natural Resources Defense Council, and their involvement in a federal court case over the deployment of the Navy's low-frequency active sonar. Borrowing from Kress and van Leeuwen's (1996) approach to visual analysis, Turnbull's (1989) understanding of the map, and Latour's (1990) understanding of how visuals work in social contexts, the article offers an analytical approach to studying maps as powerful visual, rhetorical objects.

Disciplines

English Language and Literature

Copyright

2007 Taylor & Francis.

Publisher statement

This is an electronic version of an article published in Technical Communication Quarterly.