ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on representations, as acts – representational acts of communication. Acting implies agency, and as a point of departure, the chapter introduces a model of communication, including these (embedded and "real") instances of acting. The chapter expresses that although the (representational) act as such is one, it may possess different kinds and levels of functions, varying modes of addressing, all in all, a cluster of communicational implications and potentials, corresponding to similar distinctions within and between its model and actual recipients. It covers the problem of coding, framing, and/or contextualizing and defines and discusses the question of "aesthetic" relations or dimensions and their representational functions. The chapter also focuses on the distinctive problems about possible epistemic consequences of the representations themselves, in that connection, and concludes by proposing a distinctive division of labor in the production of representations of scientific data.
