Effective Diagrammatic Communication: Syntactic, Semantic and Pragmatic Issues (1999)
| Venue: | Journal of Visual Languages and Computing |
| Citations: | 13 - 4 self |
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@ARTICLE{Gurr99effectivediagrammatic,
author = {C.A. Gurr},
title = {Effective Diagrammatic Communication: Syntactic, Semantic and Pragmatic Issues},
journal = {Journal of Visual Languages and Computing},
year = {1999},
volume = {10},
pages = {317--342}
}
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Abstract
The study of systems of communication may be divided into three parts: syntax, semantics and pragmatics. Accounts of the embedding of text-based languages in the computational processes of reasoners and communicators are relatively well developed; with accounts available for a spectrum of languages which ranges from the highly formalised and constrained, such as formal logics, to the highly informal and unconstrained natural languages used in everyday conversations. Analogies between diagrams and such textual representations of information are quite revealing about both similarities and differences and can provide a useful starting point for exploring the issues in a theory of diagrammatic communication. This paper sketches out a theory of diagrammatic communication, based upon recent studies of the syntactic, semantic and pragmatic component issues which such a theory must accommodate. In the context of this theory an exploration is made of the issues involved in answering...
