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The pragmatic dimension of cartosemiotic map use
Georg Gartner | Markus Jobst (Research Group Cartography, Institute of Geoinformation and Cartography, Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
ABSTRACT:
In linguistics and semiotics, pragmatics is concerned with bridging the explanatory gap between sentence meaning and the user’s meaning. The study of how context influences the interpretation is then crucial. In this setting, context refers to any factor — linguistic, objective, or subjective — that affects the actual interpretation of signs and expressions. Context-awareness is therefore a major area of research, which develops especially in the context of Location Based Services. In this paper a theoretical background and some practical issues on applying the pragmatic dimension in cartography are discussed.
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