| Abstrakt: |
Some theoretical considerations on the alphabet as a system of signs, including a new theory of the sign, its interdisciplinary localization, its historical unfoldment as a system of spoken sound and suggestions for future approaches. The paper argues that language-development is approaching the level of conceptual speech-passing through pictorial, sound and sign phases-and that investigations leading to a universal conceptual language as instrumentalization of a universal classification system most likely will have to focus on pictorial means of 'verbalization' (this for reasons of internationalization and standardization of such a desirable concept language). Although the paper does not explicitly deal with classification, most of its concern can easily be transcribed to fit, e.g., the problem of concept clarification, and systematization and related terminological, semantical and notational areas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
