?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=To+Show+and+To+Say%3A+Comparing+the+Uses+of+Pictures+and+Language+&rft.creator=Schirra%2C+Dr+J%C3%B6rg+R.J.&rft.creator=Sachs-Hombach%2C+Dr+Klaus&rft.subject=Philosophy+of+Mind&rft.subject=Philosophy+of+Language&rft.description=There+has+been+a+long+tradition+of+characterizing+man+as+the+animal+that+talks.+However%2C+the+remarkable+ability+of+using+pictures+also+only+belongs+to+human+beings%2C+after+all+we+know+empirically+so+far.+Are+there+conceptual+reasons+for+that+coincidence%3F+Such+a+question+belongs+to+the+philosophy+of+language+just+as+well+as+to+philosophical+visualistics.+Comparing+the+two+abilities+to+use+words+or+pictures+yields+several+similarities+as+well+as+distinctions.+A+well-known+conceptual+disparity+between+pictures+and+words+appears+in+their+relation+to+perception%3A+the+difference+can+be+further+determined+in+an+act-theoretic+manner+by+four+modes+of+use+of+the+sign+vehicles+during+the+corresponding+sign+acts.+Furthermore%2C+the+figure%2Fground+dichotomy+means+something+different+for+language+uses+and+picture+uses.+In+both+cases%2C+however%2C+there+is+a+close+relation+to+the+function+of+context+building%2C+by+which+humans+are+able+to+communicate+not+only+with+respect+to+the+present+situation+of+behavior+but+with+respect+to+arbitrary+contexts+as+well.+Although+the+structural+comparison+does+clarify+the+conceptual+relations%2C+it+cannot+explain+that+the+conceptual+structure+ought+to+be+like+that.+Therefore%2C+the+paper+concludes+with+the+programme+of+a+%22concept-genetic%22+consideration+of+the+two+abilities+(i.e.%2C+to+use+propositional+language+or+to+use+pictures)+that+is+able+to+give+us+such+a+foundation.+&rft.date=2007&rft.type=Newspaper%2FMagazine+Article&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F6243%2F1%2FScoms07.pdf&rft.identifier=++Schirra%2C+Dr+J%C3%B6rg+R.J.+and+Sachs-Hombach%2C+Dr+Klaus++(2007)+To+Show+and+To+Say%3A+Comparing+the+Uses+of+Pictures+and+Language.++%5BNewspaper%2FMagazine+Article%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F6243%2F