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Although human rights have a rich history within the American context that functioned differently at various times across audiences, not everyone considers <human rights> an ideograph. Writing without the benefit of the historical perspective we enjoy, for instance, Les Altenberg and Robert Cathcart (1982) note that during the Carter administration there was no single major address on <human rights>, and they argue that, as a social symbol, human rights failed because it could not be used to do the same rhetorical work as freedom and democracy.

This essay examines the ideograph of <person>/<person>hood pertinent to the reproductive rights debate.

Narratives of public policy can be understood as the weaving together of ideographs as parts of "story lines and arguments" (151) that shape a broader narrative.

According to Wen, Ye Fen (1989), the 3,500 commonly used characters were roughly classified in accordance with the four methods of building characters (pictographic, self-explanatory, ideograph, and semantic plus phonetic compounds.) If the structure of a character cannot be distinguished when viewing simplified characters, then traditional characters can be substituted.

Poe's interrelation of literature's capacity to create ecstasy by mixing different psychic contents and conditions in a moment of time appears later in the works of various writers such as Ezra Pound (conceptions of the ideograph and of the Image), James Joyce (the idea of the literary epiphany) or Joseph Frank (the theory of spatial form), qualifying Poe as "America's first aesthetician of simultaneity" (Foust 1981: 19).

As "an ordinary language term found in political discourse," an ideograph is "a high-order abstraction representing collective commitment to a particular but equivocal and ill-defined normative goal" to reconstruct other "comparative 'presents' of the language as they existed in the past" (McGee 12).

DeLuca supplements this with Michael McGee's term "ideograph" (DeLuca 1999b, 36), which refers to everyday words of phrases of political discourse, abstractions that are employed in order to organize identities and guide behavior toward a common but ill-defined purpose.

Rhetorical theorist Michael Calvin McGee conceived the "ideograph" as a summarizing term that galvanizes people in their discourse about certain courses of action even when they have different or conflicting agendas (McGee 1980; see also McGee 1975; 2001; here and below, cf.

For instance, tetrads of elements and building configurations that resemble the ideograph for the number four ([??]) are considered unlucky, since the pronunciation of the word "four" in some dialects is nearly homophonous with the word "death."

I posit that rhetoric may not only invoke traditional or even alternative meanings for an ideograph but may also link ideographs in order to redefine one of them.

The unit in an ideographic language is holistic whereas units in English are sequential and linear; however, visual perceptual processes underpin production and interpretation of language units, both letter and ideograph.

This phantasm closely resembles Henri Rousseau's contemporary painting Le Reve with the same dense miasmal foliage, the exotic flora and fauna, even--or especially--the lurking, fierce-eyed jungle cats (but without, of course, Rousseau's surreal touch of a nude woman reclining there on a velvet sofa), an only slightly more sinister ideograph of the painter's intent epater le bourgeois with his mocking primitivism.

For Barnett Newman, edges did not just delimit a painting's surface; they conveyed a shape that was real, a near ideograph of thought.

It is something different from the conventional notion of the "ideograph" or huiyizi [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII], the juxtaposition of graphs representing ideas or objects that contribute abstractly to the overall meaning of the word represented.