Topic
Sign (semiotics)
About: Sign (semiotics) is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 4080 publications have been published within this topic receiving 70333 citations. The topic is also known as: semiotic sign.
Papers published on a yearly basis
Papers
More filters
28 Oct 2020
TL;DR: In picture books, visual symbols are used to represent ideas that are conventionalized through their use in socio-cultural contexts as mentioned in this paper, such as offering a red rose as a sign of love, the golden arches of a particular fast food chain, the use of a cross for Christian values, or the colour red for anger or violence.
Abstract: Visual systems of meaning in picture books offer different resources and potentials for constructing meanings from written language. Because of this, readers need to familiarize themselves with a variety of differing ways of making sense and reading the images. Picture books represent a traditionally accepted, ubiquitous literary format that continues to play a significant role in elementary reading curricula. Images in picture books depict characters, actions and relationships between participants and viewers. Various narrative processes are used to represent action in the story and the relationships between objects and characters. Visual symbols are used to represent ideas that are conventionalized through their use in socio-cultural contexts: for example, offering a red rose as a sign of love or caring, the golden arches of a particular fast food chain, the use of a cross for Christian values, or the colour red for anger or violence.
14 citations
Journal Article•
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors look into visualisation in learning mathematics from three perspectives: it starts from a discussion what it takes to make a sign, an inscription on the blackboard, on paper or on a computer screen to an image.
Abstract: The paper looks into visualisation in learning mathematics from three perspectives: It starts from a discussion what it takes to make a sign, an inscription on the blackboard, on paper or on a computer screen to an image. Here we will look into the question of 'similarity' and point to the possibility of having different perspectives on the same sign as characteristic for an image. This heuristic will be complemented by looking into inscriptions as diagrams (sensu C.S. Peirce), signs constructed and used respecting certain rules. Our main argument is that learning mathematics can be described as a continuous interplay of images and diagrams. The link between these two ways to use inscriptions is offered by metaphors, which help to structure new, maybe chaotic problem situations by means of old pieces of knowledge.
14 citations
TL;DR: In this article, a group of Hong Kong Chinese construction workers were asked to draw different safety sign referents and then to narrate their drawings and redesign ideas, and the results showed that the more concrete the referent, the higher the success at producing pictorials and the greater the commonality between redesign suggestions.
14 citations
TL;DR: In this article, a critique of metaphoric privilege is presented as a plea for valuing different ways of seeing things and saying things, which is a concern with the metonymic.
Abstract: In Book II of The Mill on the Floss the narrator pauses to lament the association of intelligence with the ability to wield metaphor. "Aristotle! if you had the advantage of being the 'freshest modern' instead of being the greatest ancient, would you not have mingled your praise of metaphorical speech, as a sign of high intelligence, with a lamentation that intelligence so rarely shows itself in speech without metaphor, —that we can so seldom declare what a thing is, except by saying it is something else?" In the context of the narrative, this critique of metaphoric privilege is a plea for valuing different ways of seeing things and saying things. George Eliot does not name this different perspective; I suggest it is a concern with the metonymic. In contemporary, post-structuralist criticism the scrutiny of metaphoric privilege has often meant a reconsideration or defence of the 'other trope,' metonymy. My interest in metonymy here is to consider what relationships exist between the various ways in which ...
14 citations
TL;DR: A thorough systematic mapping of translation-enabling technologies for sign languages is conducted, considered the most recommended guidelines for systematic reviews, since there is a need to account for interdisciplinary areas of accessibility, human computer interaction, natural language processing, and education.
Abstract: Sign languages (SL) are the first language for most deaf people. Consequently, bidirectional communication among deaf and non-deaf people has always been a challenging issue. Sign language usage has increased due to inclusion policies and general public agreement, which must then become evident in information technologies, in the many facets that comprise sign language understanding and its computational treatment. In this study, we conduct a thorough systematic mapping of translation-enabling technologies for sign languages. This mapping has considered the most recommended guidelines for systematic reviews, i.e., those pertaining software engineering, since there is a need to account for interdisciplinary areas of accessibility, human computer interaction, natural language processing, and education, all of them part of ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) computing classification system directly related to software engineering. An ongoing development of a software tool called SYMPLE (SYstematic Mapping and Parallel Loading Engine) facilitated the querying and construction of a base set of candidate studies. A great diversity of topics has been studied over the last 25 years or so, but this systematic mapping allows for comfortable visualization of predominant areas, venues, top authors, and different measures of concentration and dispersion. The systematic review clearly shows a large number of classifications and subclassifications interspersed over time. This is an area of study in which there is much interest, with a basically steady level of scientific publications over the last decade, concentrated mainly in the European continent. The publications by country, nevertheless, usually favor their local sign language.
14 citations