idealized cognitive model prototype ideogram ideography ideograph [Grk ideĩn ‘to see,’ gráphein ‘to write’]

Type of transcription in which meanings are expressed by graphic signs (ideograms), whereby complex complete meanings are symbolized synthetically by a single conceptual sign. Such conventionalized ideograms (e.g. those found in traffic signs) are not restricted to use in individual languages, since they are not basically signs that express the meaning of linguistic expressions. A special type of ideogram is found in Frege’s (1879) ‘conceptual writing,’ which is one of the first formalized languages for representing predicate logic. ( also pictography)

References

Frege, G. 1879. Begriffsschrift: eine der arithmetischen nachgebildete Formelsprache des reinen Denkens. Halle. (Repr. ed. I.Angelelli, Darmstadt, 1964.) writing

Generally, an onomatopoetic ( onomatopoeia) representation of a concept, often consisting of reduplicated syllables and not adhering to the phonotactic structure of the given language. Examples from Baule (a) sound concepts [kεtεkεtεkεtε] ‘a running elephant,’ [foooooo] ‘the laughter of an elephant’; (b) visual concepts [gudugudu] ‘something large and round,’ [mlãmlãlã] ‘something large and fat’

Reference

Timyan, J. 1976. A discourse-based grammar of Baule. Dissertation, New York. 254-61.