Outlines Peirce's philosophy of rhetoric by examining his philosophy of signs and sketching his specific program for rhetoric as a general art for "rendering signs effective." Suggests that Peirce's work is part of a fully elaborated system of inquiry and signification. (JMF)

Bliss Symbols form a language system of 100 basic symbols based not on the sound of words but on their meaning. Physically handicapped persons of a wide age and intellectual range are benefiting from the system. (Author/MLF)

Examines the direct and indirect support for the Whorf hypothesis which states that one thinks in a language and that language shapes what one thinks and perceives. (RB)

Librarianship is the management of knowledge, not the management of nature, i.e., it is controlled by ideas, not by phenomena. The man/document interface provides a key for creating the philosophy of librarianship and a clue to the intellectual nature of the library profession. Because librarianship occurs whenever ideas are reused, librarians…

Arguing that understanding human interaction requires both a study of symbol use and a study of human action, this paper focuses on one function served by symbolization--fantasizing. Drawing upon the work of R. F. Bales, who identified the sharing of group fantasies as a useful communication function and who observed the process by which group…

Discusses Kenneth Burke's ideas regarding the rhetoric of form as a productive way to begin to conceptualize and analyze the rhetoric of form. Traces human forming from the level of tacit symbolic "fixing" through systematic "knowing" to the manipulating of technical forms for the purpose of evoking response. (JMF)

The use of sematography, or Bliss Symbols, is considered as an alternative communication mode for children whose handicap is such that standard communication strategies are not possible. (Author/SBH)

THE FIELD OF ANALOGIC, OR ICONIC, SIGNS WAS EXPLORED TO (1) DEVELOP AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY AND (2) PREPARE AN ANALYSIS OF THE SUBJECT AREA. THE SCOPE OF THE STUDY WAS LIMITED TO ONLY THOSE COMPONENTS OF MESSAGES, INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS, AND COMMUNICATIVE STIMULI THAT CAN BE DESCRIBED PROPERLY AS ICONIC. THE AUTHOR BASED THE STUDY ON A…

This article concentrates on the syntagmatic element involved in using and understanding various signalling systems. (Text is in French.) (CLK)

Deals with the relationship existing between the signifier and the signified components of signs, and with problems in the definition of signs. It is also concerned with recognizing the relationship of semiotics to developmental psychology and ethology. (Available from Semiotica, Co-Libri, P.O. Box 482, The Hague 2076, The Netherlands)

Discusses the message of modern architecture as exemplified by the Las Vegas strip. (RB)

An elementary teacher uses pictorial symbols to help his students, who speak English, Spanish, Vietnamese and Chinese, to communicate more freely. (RK)

Paper presented at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, on December 2, 1970. (DS)