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Logographic writing systems: (on the left) Egyptian hieroglyphics and (on the right) Chinese pictograms.
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The proposed work investigates the relationship between the word and its possible two-dimensional representation. Oral production and graphic-visual production are very different from each other, but they are a full-fledged language, because they are characterized by a code and a content of the message. In particular, it examines words-actions of a...
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... are more than 54,000 characters recognized in the Chinese vocabulary to date (Piccioli 2000). They are constantly increasing as each new word needs a new symbol to be translated into the Chinese language. There is a big difference between ancient and modern writing and some of these symbols have been completely reinterpreted and changed meaning (Fig. ...
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