RI - Chapter 3 - Conceptual representations: designing social constructs

Here are my notes from reading this book from authors Gunther Kress and Theo van Leeuwen.

Classificational process do not reflect 'real' or 'natural' things. For participants to be put together into a classificational means, they need to be judged and read as members of the same class. The more general idea is represented similar to a greater 'power'.
(def. Taxonomy - the science or technique of classification.) (e.g. Cosmopolitan magazine - Xpose watches by Sekonda)

Classificational structures represent participants by their place in a static order. Verbal labels and explanations which accompany them do not always do so.

Classificational diagrams, if rotated 90 degrees and final orientation is along horizontal axis. This has the orientation similar to narrative diagrams - dynamic connotation but retains the structure of classificational diagram (represented as a system).

Here is are some diagrams of UNIX and WINDOWS operating system, with programming languages. These diagrams reminded me of the trees in this book... horizontal axis.
http://www.levenez.com/unix/history.html#04
http://www.levenez.com/windows/history.html#04
http://www.levenez.com/lang/history.html#06

Taxonomy: modeled on a static, hierarchical organization in which everything has its pre-ordained place in a grand scheme unified by a single source of authority.

Flowchart: modeled on the principle of authoritatively prescribed, structured, goal-oriented activity.

Network: modeled on a form of social organization which is a vast labyrinth of intersecting local relations in which each node is related in many different ways to other nodes in its immediate environment, but in which it is difficult, if not impossible, to form a coherant view of the whole.