Advanced Search

Journal Navigation

Journal Home

Subscriptions

Archive

Contact Us

Table of Contents

Click here for FREE ACCESS to this landmark database

Click here to sign up for SAGE Journal Email Alerts today!

Sign In to gain access to subscriptions and/or personal tools.
Theory & Psychology
This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow References
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to Saved Citations
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Right arrow Request Reprints
Right arrow Add to My Marked Citations
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Right arrow Citing Articles via Scopus
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Meuniere, J.-G.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Complore   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us   Add to Digg   Add to Reddit   Add to Technorati   Add to Twitter  
What's this?

The Categorial Structure of Iconic Languages

Jean-Guy Meuniere

Universitaté du Québec à Montréal, Meunier.Jean-Guy{at}uqam.ca

Classical theories of cognitive processing have defended a propositional approach to mental information processing. Because not all cognitive processes offer the systematicity proper to these types of languages, other theories have proposed a more iconic or associative approach. These types of representational systems do not seem to possess such a systematic structure. But this is debatable. In a semiotic perspective, it can be shown that these systems can be modelled in a categorial approach and hence render more explicit their underlying systematicity. It then follows that a propositional language is not the only language that offers the systematicity required for coherent information processing.

Key Words: categorial structure • iconic languages • semiotics

Theory & Psychology, Vol. 8, No. 6, 805-825 (1998)
DOI: 10.1177/0959354398086005
Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Complore Complore   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us   Add to Digg Digg   Add to Reddit Reddit   Add to Technorati Technorati   Add to Twitter Twitter    What's this?