1. Web B – Treemaps and Semiotic Inspection
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CONTEXT
Message
Response
Channel

2. First download & Install Treemaps
Please go to
to install the software tool.
Run the software and open the simple1 data file. You should see the following slide.

4. Download Treemap 4.1

5. Open simple1.tm3

7. Play, think, learn
Play with the software – document what you do as you do it.
Not look at someone else using treemaps in the next slides.

15. Interlocutors Inspecting interlocutors: Who is speaking? To whom?
Are the interlocutors represented?
Is the direction of interlocution represented?

20. Tree maps

21. Construct a schematic representation

22. Another schematic of inter-process

23. Elaborate Discourse Prepare Focus Identify Evaluate Select Elaborate
Sender
Receiver
Action
Message

24. Options for initiating
initiate
Initiation type
Instruct
Demand action
Direct attention
Elicit response
Prepare
Query
Respondent
Specific
Whole (all)

25. Options for responding
Response
Act
Identify
Select

26. Options for feedback Feedback Evaluate Elaborate Confirmation Affirm
Reject

27. Representations Are representations Indexical? Symbolic? Iconic?
Dimension of contiguity between representation and referent?
Symbolic?
What symbol systems used?
Who produces? When and how?
Iconic?
Static or dynamic?
Which are qualitative?

28. Inspecting message and code
What is the speaker saying?
Using which code and medium?
Are the code and medium appropriate?
Are there alternatives?
Are the speaker and listeners sharing the same signification system?
Can the speaker encode differently?

29. All Done
Please put your documentation in the assignment Web B
Thanks!