A Study on the Role of Image Information for Language Understanding and Intercultural Communication

Abstract

Individual opinion and living culture have not only been influenced by such image information as advertising papers and signboards but also recent advertisements through TV, Web and digital signage. Effectiveness of the image information above has been analyzed by human information history, computer media history, language acquisition, and Maslow’s theory. Then image information effectiveness for cultural propagation has been discussed through the images of the Bible in the West, and figures of Confucianism filial piety in the East.