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This chapter focuses on the issue of written language from the following two viewpoints: the writing system and communication in graphic space. The case that I would like to make regarding iconicity and written language roughly corresponds with these viewpoints: the role of iconicity in the logographic writing system of Japanese; and the re-evaluation of written language in the context of visual graphic communication.
Poetic thought works by suggestion, crowding maximum meaning into the single phrase pregnant, charged, and luminous from within. In Chinese character each word accumulated this sort of energy in itself.
Earnest Fenollosa (in Pound 1936)
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© 2005 Masako K. Hiraga
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Hiraga, M.K. (2005). Iconicity and Written Language. In: Metaphor and Iconicity. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230510708_7
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