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  2. A picture is worth a thousand words - Wikipedia

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    A similar phrase, "One Look Is Worth A Thousand Words", appears in a 1913 newspaper advertisement for the Piqua Auto Supply House of Piqua, Ohio. [4] Early use of the exact phrase appears in a 1918 newspaper advertisement for the San Antonio Light, which says: One of the Nation's Greatest Editors Says: One Picture is Worth a Thousand Words

  3. Multimodality - Wikipedia

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    For example, in digital components of lessons, there are often pictures, videos, and sound bites as well as the text to help students grasp a better understanding of the subject. Multimodality also requires that teachers move beyond teaching with just text, as the printed word is only one of many modes students must learn and use. [31] [34] [35]

  4. Picture superiority effect - Wikipedia

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    Allan Paivio's dual-coding theory is a basis of picture superiority effect. Paivio claims that pictures have advantages over words with regards to coding and retrieval of stored memory because pictures are coded more easily and can be retrieved from symbolic mode, while the dual coding process using words is more difficult for both coding and retrieval.

  5. Visual literacy - Wikipedia

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    Charles Joseph Minard's Carte Figurative illustrates facts related to Napoleon's 1812 Russian campaign.. Visual literacy is the ability to interpret, negotiate, and make meaning from information presented in the form of an image, extending the meaning of literacy, which commonly signifies interpretation of a written or printed text.

  6. Human communication - Wikipedia

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    Human communication can be defined as any Shared Symbolic Interaction. [6]Shared, because each communication process also requires a system of signification (the Code) as its necessary condition, and if the encoding is not known to all those who are involved in the communication process, there is no understanding and therefore fails the same notification.

  7. Tacit knowledge - Wikipedia

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    One of the most convincing examples of tacit knowledge is facial recognition: one knows a person's face, and can recognize it among a thousand, indeed a million. Yet, people usually cannot tell how they recognize that face, so most of this cannot be put into words.

  8. Text world theory - Wikipedia

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    The word "pavement" makes the reader use their background knowledge in order to build a text world in which this action takes place, and this will differ between readers. While many readers might construct an urban environment based on this word, each reader's text world would be informed by how their background knowledge and lived experience ...

  9. Language and thought - Wikipedia

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    The Munduruku culture for example, has number words only up to five. In addition, they refer to the number 5 as "a hand" and the number 10 as "two hands". Numbers above 10 are usually referred to as "many". Perhaps the most different counting system from that of modern Western civilisation is the "one-two-many" system used by the Pirahã people ...