Types of Iconic Linkage
There are two fundamental types of Iconic Linkage:
Full and Partial
. Each
type is determined by the extent of repetition within a particular sentence.
The following paragraphs describe the nature of each type.
Full Iconic Linkage
Full Iconic Linkage refers to complete, discrete and relatively independent
units of text such as sentences, headings, table cells etc. which are semanti-
cally identical and which are also isomorphic. Rather than writing the same
information using different constructions or formulations, the same unit is
repeated at different points in the text. Table 3 illustrates examples of full
Iconic Linkage.
Matching Paragraphs
Full Iconic Linkage, i.e. identical sentences may be combined to form lar-
ger sections of isomorphic, semantically identical text. Thus, several in-
stances of full Iconic Linkage can form iconically linked paragraphs which
can then in turn be combined to form even longer stretches of iconically
linked text.
Partial Iconic Linkage
Partial Iconic Linkage refers to
parts
of a unit that are identical – this is usu-
ally because there are certain factual differences which mean the units are
not complete semantic matches. It can also be because one unit communi-
cates more information than the other. Ideally this should not happen be-
cause best practice in technical writing holds that a sentence should only
communicate one idea at a time. This also complies with the principles of
good design set out by cognitive design principles to reduce STM load (see
Chapter 3). Table 4 illustrates some examples of partial Iconic Linkage.
Examples of Latent Iconic Linkage
The following tables illustrate different forms of latent Iconic Linkage:
Full
Iconic Linkage
and
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