Items for "classification of signs"

Images, diagrams, and metaphors: Hypoicons in the context of Peirce's sixty-six-fold classification of signs

In his 1903 Syllabus, Charles S. Peirce makes a distinction between icons and iconic signs, or hypoicons, and briefly introduces a division of the latter into images, diagrams, and metaphors...

Keywords: Hypoicons, classification of signs, semiotics, C. S. Peirce, pictograms, information design