signs, Beach, indigenous knowledge

Semasiographic

Dana point — Which way to the beach? Well, do we really need to ask? It seems to me that, as our culture grows increasingly visual, we see more and more evidence of “semasiographic” modes of communication. “in which meanings, not words or sounds, are suggested by signs.” (I. J. Gelb, A Study of Writing, 1963, p. 11) Such signs may be highly conventional, like musical or scientific notation, or they may be...