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Significance is a term mainly used in the literature of the 18th and 19th centuries for a science of written or printed signs, especially of ecclesiastical and diplomatic signs. Drawing was an auxiliary science of diplomacy (document science ). The term semiotics was used synonymously, but was not used in its current, more comprehensive meaning.

Sub-disciplines

According to Johann Christoph Gatterer (and similarly with other authors), drawing is divided into:

Drawing studies in medicine

The term drawing , also with the synonym semiotics , was also used as a medical term in the 18th and 19th centuries: The word σημειοτικη (namely τεχνη) means drawing, i.e. the representation and knowledge of those external, sensually perceptible features which serve as signs, marks of certain physical as well as mental qualities and states.

"Signography" as a "doctrine of graphic signs"

In 2000, the Leipzig typographer Andreas Stötzner proposed the term signography (from the Latin signum "sign" and -graphy ) in his more precise concept of a generally applicable sign study as a theory of graphic signs. Subject of this teaching are anatomy and the development of graphic forms and their use as a bearer of meaning, as a sign (of any kind and any field of application). It is thus a sub-discipline of semiotics (in today's sense), namely a semiotics of the graphic, which starts from the original inherent laws of graphic formation and applies this to all areas that communicate with the medium of the graphic sign. The task of such a teaching is specifically to show constructive concepts for the design and application of signs; in this respect it goes beyond the framework of a purely descriptive semiotics. Based on this concept, the series SIGNA - Contributions to Signography was published, of which ten issues appeared in 2000–2006 and an eleventh issue in 2008. Issue 9 with the main theme The Great Eszett represented essential preparations for the ultimately successful DIN proposals to include the ẞ as a capital letter in Unicode .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ (Councilor) Feßmeier: plan of auxiliary historical sciences . Anton Weber (bookseller), Landshut 1802, p. 73 (§77) .
  2. ↑ Johann Christoph Gatterer : Outline of Diplomatics . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1798, Section 2. Drawing Studies, p. 64 ff. (§59 ff.) .
  3. ↑ z. B. Friedrich August Huch: Attempting a literature on diplomacy . Second book. Johann Jakob Palm, Erlangen 1792, second division: From semiotics or diplomatic drawing.
  4. ^ Karl Sundelin: Handbook of practical medicine science . First volume: semiotics . Anton v. Haykul (printer) and Me. Lechner (university bookseller), Vienna 1830, p. 11 .
  5. ^ Andreas Stötzner: Signography as an independent subject . In: SIGNA - Contributions to Signography . 2nd Edition. No. 1 . Denkmalschmiede Höfgen gGmbH, Edition Wæchterpappel, Grimma 2005, ISBN 3-933629-15-2 (first edition: 2000).
  6. ^ Andreas Stötzner: Brief Introduction to Signography. August 1, 2006, accessed August 3, 2012 .
  7. ↑ Thorwald Poschenrieder among others: The great Eszett . In: SIGNA - Contributions to Signography . No. 3 . Denkmalschmiede Höfgen gGmbH, Edition Wæchterpappel, Grimma 2006, ISBN 3-933629-17-9 .
  8. ^ Andreas Stötzner: Capital Double S - Proposal to the Unicode Consortium. (PDF; 1.4 MB) ISO / IEC JTC1 / SC2 / WG2, November 10, 2004, accessed on August 3, 2012 (English).
  9. ↑ DIN / Cord Wischhöfer et al: Proposal to encode Latin Capital Letter Sharp S to the UCS. (PDF; 2.6 MB) ISO / IEC JTC1 / SC2 / WG2, March 21, 2007, accessed on August 3, 2012 (English).