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This paper is based on a study, “A Socio-and Psycho-Linguistic Theory of Pictorial Communication,”supported by a grant from the U. S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Office of Education, under the provisions of Title VII-B of the National Defense Education Act of 1958 (Contract Number OE-3-16-019). It is not possible for this writer to acknowledge as fully as he would like to the many scholars whose thinking has shaped his own. Certain persons, however, have had an especially profound influence on the writer’s development. These scholars are Roger Brown, Jerome Bruner, Charles Hockett, Susanne Langer, and Charles Morris.
The author wishes to thank John Peterson for the artwork that appears in this paper.
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Knowlton, J.Q. On the definition of “Picture”. ECTJ 14, 157–183 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02769550
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