ATS1297 Quiz: Academic Writing Quiz Notes S1_W9_2
31 Jul 2018
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Visual and verbal semiotics in scientific text reading 2 (cid:858)concepts of science(cid:859) = semiotic hybrids simultaneously and essentially verbal, mathematical, visual-graphical, and actional operational. Science endeavoring to construct representations of the topological as well as the typological aspects of our being-in-the-world. Lanaguage - a typologically oriented semiotic resource; a tool for the formulation of difference and relationship, for the making of categorical distinctions. Science is much poorer in resources for formulating the topological dimensions of meaning (e. g. degree, quantity, continuous change) topological meanings can be enacted operationally through many forms of human motor activity. Scientists combine, interconnect, and integrate verbal text with mathematical expressions, quantitative graphs, information tables, abstract diagrams, maps, drawings, photographs and a host of unique specialised visual genres seen nowhere else. Finding of preliminary surveys: there is typically at least one and often more than one graphical display and one mathematical expression per page of running text in typical scientific print genres.
