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What is Icon, Iconic Object, or Image

Chapter 7
Describing Nature Through Visual Data
An icon represents a thing or refers to something by resembling or imitating it; thus, a picture, a photograph, a mathematical expression, or an old-style telephone may be regarded as an iconic object. Thus, an iconic object has some qualities common with things it represents, by looking, sounding, feeling, tasting, or smelling alike.
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Alphabets and Characters
Anna Ursyn (University of Northern Colorado, USA)
Copyright: © 2021 |Pages: 19
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-5753-2.ch007
Abstract
This chapter examines visual-verbal connections that can be perceived in individual letters. Cultural patterns that build our visual literacy include visual writings in many modes and styles, visible stories, and visual rhetoric. The text examines old ways of communication attained by developing writing systems and discusses kinds of characters making different alphabets. Further text is about human characters, traits of their personalities, and then examining the visual power of characters that constitute the modern English alphabet by developing alphabet-based projects linking letters with human characters and human emotions.
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