Making sense of the visual — is Google the seventh language?

Semiotica 2005 (157):345-351 (2005)
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The visual bias of all written or notated forms of language is examined. These include writing, math, science, computing and the Internet which together with speech form an evolutionary chain of six languages. The proposition that Google might be the seventh language is explored.

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10.1515/semi.2005.2005.157.1-4.345

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