ABSTRACT
The study discussed in the foregoing chapter has shown how a nonverbal medium of representation, that of expressive line patterns, tends to evoke genetically less “advanced” modes of articulating and organizing experience than are attainable through (English) linguistic codification. Those inquiries provided some indication of the ways in which one would be channelized into apprehending agent’s action on objects were one limited to a medium of representation close to gesture. In the present chapter we extend our investigation into primordial analogues of linguistically articulated conceptions by examining the ways in which temporal loci of action are expressed in nonverbal media of representation.
