Abstract Within social semiotics we discuss how different semiotic resources alone or in multimodal texts are used to communicate truth. This is one of the parts of the multimodal theory that are least developed and discussed. The discussion on truth within social semiotics is mainly focused on the relationship between a corresponding type of truth that is common in natural science and a more everyday perception of truth. This can give an incomplete and stereotypical image of how truth is portrayed. This essay attempts to nuance the picture by suggesting that our theoretical conceptions of how we portray truth visually can be nuanced and developed by combining the theory of multimodality with categories of truth taken from the general philosophy of science. This approach will be illustrated by examples from Norwegian non-fiction books aimed at young people.

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谈真事：青少年多模态非小说类书籍中的真理概念

摘要 在社会符号学中，我们讨论如何单独或在多模态文本中使用不同的符号资源来传达真理。这是多模态理论中发展和讨论最少的部分之一。社会符号学中关于真理的讨论主要集中在自然科学中常见的相应类型的真理与更日常的真理感知之间的关系。这可以给出关于如何描绘真相的不完整和刻板印象。本文试图通过将多模态理论与从一般科学哲学中提取的真理类别相结合，提出我们如何在视觉上描绘真理的理论概念可以得到细微差别和发展，从而使这幅画变得微妙起来。