English What Are Language Barriers and How to Overcome Them Language barriers can significantly impact communication, both in personal and professional settings. Whether it’s in healthcare, business, education, or everyday interactions, language barriers can hinder effective communication, potentially leading to misunderstandings and missed opportunities. In this article, we will explore what language barriers are, common…
English Unveiling the Power of Visual Language: A Comprehensive Introduction I- What Is Visual Language Within the expansive realm of communication, visual language emerges as a profound system of expression, leveraging an amalgamation of artful elements to express ideas, emotions, and messages. The seamless integration of images, colors, typography, and icons offers the ability to…
English The RiLL association accepted our proposal to choose visual languages as the theme of the next SFIDA 2023 literary competition (competition reserved for winners of past editions of the RiLL Trophy). Here is the announcement (deadline at the end of July to send stories).
English The KomunIKON team published one more paper, this time in the proceedings of iConLangs 2022, International Constructed Languages Conference, University of Torino https://sites.google.com/unito.it/i-conlangs22/home-page The proceedings are downloadable here: https://ojs.unito.it/index.php/ricognizioni/issue/view/599 and our paper is here: https://ojs.unito.it/index.php/ricognizioni/article/view/7095/6096
Abstract This paper presents a new iconic language, the IKON language, and its philosophical, linguistic, and graphical principles. We examine some case studies to highlight the semantic complexity of the visual representation of meanings. We also introduce the Iconometer test to validate our icons and their application to the medical domain, through the creation of…
SciLang: Holistic integration of languages into science and science into languages took place on Friday 8th July at the Lancaster University in the United Kingdom. The SciLang conference aims to promote a more holistic approach to languages and science for scientists interested in languages and linguists interested in science. This was done by a lot…