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Aire scripto-visuelle

English translation: Scripto-visual Space

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French term or phrase:Aire scripto-visuelle
English translation:Scripto-visual Space
Entered by: Joab Eichenberg-Eilon

19:56 Oct 10, 2011
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French term or phrase: Aire scripto-visuelle
An analytical term "c'est l'espace qu'occupe le texte sur la page blanche, sa présentation typographie"
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Scripto-visual Space
Explanation:
This is a term used in the confluence of literary criticism, sociology and art studies, referring to the elicitation of meaning from the arrangement of writing on the page. Below are an example from, and reference to, an article in French focusing on semiotics with reference to this term, and in English it is also mentioned in the book Sociology and visual representation By Elizabeth Chaplin.
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Scripto-visual Space


Explanation:
This is a term used in the confluence of literary criticism, sociology and art studies, referring to the elicitation of meaning from the arrangement of writing on the page. Below are an example from, and reference to, an article in French focusing on semiotics with reference to this term, and in English it is also mentioned in the book Sociology and visual representation By Elizabeth Chaplin.

Example sentence(s):
  • La disposition spatiale Quoique souvent occultée, l'inscription du texte dans l'aire scripto-visuelle de la page intervient de manière déterminante dans le précadrage générique.

    Reference: http://www.fabula.org/atelier.php?Genres_et_pragmatique_de_l...
Joab Eichenberg-Eilon
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Reference information:
The first thing that springs to mind is a 'block' of text or a 'grid': http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter-spacing

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=4lQXrc17eeUC&pg=PT22&lpg=...

You may find what you need in these links. I haven't got time to look more extensively for you just at the moment. Apologies, if teaching Grandma to suck eggs.

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