Introduces a teaching technique for composition in which learning occurs in an atmosphere of experimentation and imagination, in an atmosphere of the hypothetical, and in an atmosphere of discovery. (RB)

Describes language as a vehicle of thought severely limited by auditory, kinesthetic, and visual images, restricted to linear succession, and precariously linked to meaning by standardized labels. (MB)

Author notes that semantics, originally designed as non-Aristotelian discipline, has become anti-Aristotelian. He outlines six significant areas in which almost no difference can be found between Greek philosopher's ideas and those of modern semanticists; for example: words are symbols, not things; meanings lie within persons, not words. (PD)

A curriculum theory begins in the transference of meaning from the familiar and the comprehensible to the abstract and perplexing problems arising from the actual teaching situation. These metaphors that evolve into theories serve to direct research by creating a symbolic language. (JN)

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)

Standard or enhanced Blissymbols, designed to represent familiar actions, attributes, and objects, were shown to 20 3 year olds, who guessed their meaning. The number of their guesses that referred to the enhancements was twice as great as the number that referred to the standard Blissymbol base. (Author/JDD)

Attempts a semiotic experiment to explore the fluctuations of meaning produced by interferences between textual and figurative representation within one picture. Discusses examples such as the portrait with its presentation of the subject and the topographical city plan. Provides an in-depth exploration of Philippe de Champaigne's "Ex-voto of…

This article offers teaching strategies in the dynamic assessment of the potential of students with autism to acquire and use multiple graphic symbol combinations for communicative purposes. Examples are given of the matrix strategy and milieu language teaching strategies. It also describes the Individualized Communication-Care Protocol, which…

The possible use of a calendar algorithm was assessed in DBC, an autistic "savant" of normal measured intelligence. Testing of all the dates in a year revealed a random distribution of errors. Re-testing DBC on the same dates one year later shows that his errors were not stable across time. Finally, DBC was able to answer "reversed" questions that…

Author considered the range of questions involved in aesthetic education focusing on the categorization of art works as carriers of meaning in the broadest sense, signs. (Author/RK)

Article investigated the influence upon our lives played by verbal language and its role in art education. (Author/RK)

The structural elements of the spontaneous symbolic play of 2- and 3-year-olds were compared with those of 4- and 5-year-olds. All 32 children studied were enrolled in a private day care center. Each child was observed during free play in the center for 15 minutes. Three categories of signifiers (animate, inanimate and imaginary) and five modes of…

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…