%0 Journal Article
%T Reflections on Ideographs
%A Yong-da YIN
%J Canadian Social Science
%D 2010
%I Canadian Academy of Oriental and Occidental Culture
%X In the Western word, the study of ideographic writings is often impaired by a kind of terminological confusion which is more due to theoretical negligence than to insufficiency in practical knowledge of ideographic languages. In this article, we try to dispel this confusion by examining its origin. Through the examination, we shall make distinction between logogram and ideogram ; the question ¡°when drawing become writing¡± is to be answered. The classification of ideograms will also be under consideration anew. The last part of this article will be devoted to the distinction between alphabetic systems and ideographic systems. Key words: ideogram; logogram; pictogram; drawing; alphabet; study of writing R¨¦sum¨¦: En Occident, l¡¯¨¦tude des syst¨¨mes d¡¯¨¦criture id¨¦ographiques s¡¯accompagne souvent d¡¯une confusion terminologique qui est due plus ¨¤ une n¨¦gligence th¨¦orique qu¡¯¨¤ une insuffisance de connaissances en langues qu¡¯on dit en g¨¦n¨¦ral id¨¦ographiques. Dans le pr¨¦sent article, nous essayons de dissiper cette confusion en menant des r¨¦flexions sur son origine, au fil desquelles nous serons naturellement oblig¨¦ de faire le d¨¦part entre logogramme et id¨¦ogramme, nous r¨¦pondrons ¨¤ la question quand un dessin devient signe d¡¯¨¦criture. Nous r¨¦examinerons ¨¦galement la classification des id¨¦ogrammes; pour ce faire, nous mettrons ¨¤ contribution des approches s¨¦miologiques. La derni¨¨re partie de l¡¯article sera consacr¨¦e ¨¤ une comparaison entre syst¨¨me id¨¦ographique et syst¨¨me alphab¨¦tique; ¨¤ la suite de la comparaison on saura pourquoi l¡¯¨¦criture n¡¯a pas ¨¦volu¨¦ vers l¡¯alphabet. Mots cl¨¦s: id¨¦ogramme; logogramme; pictogramme; dessin; alphabet; grammatologie
%K id¨¦ogramme
%K logogramme
%K pictogramme
%K dessin
%K alphabet
%K grammatologie
%K ideogram
%K logogram
%K pictogram
%K drawing
%K alphabet
%K study of writing
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