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Imagetext is William J. T.
Mitchell's term in Picture Theory;
"foregrounding" is Richard Lanham's term in The Electronic Word: Democracy, Technology, and the Arts,
University of Chicago Press, 1993;
Visual
Language is a book by Robert E. Horn.
2 On density as analog, see also John Lee's "Goodman Revisited" in Visual Representations and Interpretations ( Paton, R. and Neilson, I., eds. ) Springer, 1999, pp. 21-31. (possibly at http://mac-john.cogsci.ed. ac.uk/VRI-Lee-final. html#RTFToC1)
3 Goodman would say photographs are semantically denser than drawings with elements and details that may or may not be significant. (Goodman discussed in Elkins, The Domain of Images, Cornell University Press, 1999, chapter 5). "Birders" say that good drawings are better than good photographs when looking to identify a bird.
4 James Elkins suggests that mixed signifying modes may be the norm for much "non-art" imagery. (The Domain of Images, Cornell University Press, 1999: p. 36.)
5 See Montage and Modern Life: 1919-1942 edited by Matthew Teitelbaum (MIT Press, 1992) for examples.
6 I phrase the dotted-line convention to include two kinds of circumstances: an edge or other feature is occluded by something and could be seen from a different location, and the edge or feature is not at present visible but was visible at one time or will be in the future.
7 See J.C. Nyíri, The Picture Theory of Reason http://nyitottegyetem.phil-inst.hu/filtort/kut/krb2000/tlk.htm#%A7%205
8It could probably be done with polarizing filters, but it would not be an everyday experience.
9Simcity versions are dimetric or trimetric, not isometric, but these are all types of axonometric. See Paul Pedriana's discussion "Is SimCity 4 3D?" on line: http://simcity.ea.com/about/inside_scoop/3d1.php. It is also the basic system of "Chinese" (and Korean and Japanese) scroll-painting representation of objects in space.
10See discussion in Edgerton7-8 and the references cited there. And see Messaris (65) for a reproduction of six of them.
11They are following M.A.K. Halliday here. For Halliday, Giving and Demanding are the two most fundamental types of speech role underlying all the more specific types. See Halliday, p. 68-71.