I read into Yuri Engelhardt’s dis­ser­ta­tion “The Lan­guage of Graph­ics”, and I think it is a fan­tas­tic piece of work. As the title sug­gests, the the­sis sug­gests a lin­guis­ti­cally moti­vated approach to the analy­sis of graph­ics: based from a syn­tac­ti­cal analy­sis of space, objects and their rela­tions, Engel­hardt clas­si­fies and exem­pli­fies dif­fer­ent types of syn­tac­tic struc­tures in which graph­i­cal objects can be arranged in order to con­vey mean­ing. (more…)