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Record 1 1993-12-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psycho-, Socio- and Ethnolinguistics
DEF

any of various proposed international written languages using signs (as mathematical symbols) to represent ideas rather than words.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psycho-, socio- et ethnolinguistique
OBS

Idéographique : se dit d'une écriture, d'un système de signes qui traduit directement les idées par des signes.

OBS

Certains auteurs tiennent à distinguer ce système de la pictographie, système qui utilise des images ou des représentations d'objets plutôt que des symboles; inutile de dire que la marge est mince entre ces deux notions.

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