英文字之张氏象形研究

The Study of Chang’s Pictograph in English Words

本论文所探讨之英文张氏象形字主要是透过张氏象形六法,将现今英文字汇变成一种新形态之象形字体,亦即以一种新象形形式表现,此种新象形字体,吾人将其命名为“英文张氏象形字”。所谓张氏象形六法其简述如下:法则1乃特征选取、法则2是特征投影与描绘、法则3为想象、法则4乃字体逆推衍、法则5为融合而法则6则称取舍与补偿。由于英文字之象形除须依循张氏象形六法外,尚须涉及字母个数(个数多寡会影响所占空间之大小)与排列顺序(顺序错误会影响字意),是以其排列须有一定之轨迹,因选取之轨迹不同,同一个英文字汇可能会有多个不同的英文张氏象形字,亦即同一个英文字汇其英文张氏象形字并不唯一。最后,本论文乃针对英文系统,利用张氏象形六法创造出“英文象形字”,其他语言系统之象形字亦可仿照本文方法而加以完成,达成创作象形字活力的目标。

In this article, the English words (or vocabularies) with Chang’s pictograph are discussed by mainly using six rules of Chang’s pictograph to transform the current English words’ font into a new pictographic font. Such new fonts of pictograph for English words are named “English Chang’s Pictograph”. The so-called six rules of Chang’s pictograph are briefly described as follows: Rule 1 is feature selection, Rule 2 is feature projection and depiction, Rule 3 is imagination, Rule 4 is fonts’ reverse derivation, Rule 5 is fusion and Rule 6 is called selection and compensation. The pictographs of English words should follow the six rules of Chang’s pictograph. And the number of letters (the number will affect the size of the space occupied) and the arrangement order (the wrong order will affect the meaning of the word) are also need to be considered. Therefore, the arrangement of the English word must have a certain trajectory. Since the different trajectories selected, the same English vocabulary may have multiple different English Chang’s pictograph. That is, the English Chang’s pictograph for the same English vocabulary is not unique. Finally, with respect to the English system, this paper creates the “English pictographs” by using the six rules of Chang’s pictograph. The pictographs of other language systems can also be completed by imitating the methods in this article to achieve the goal of creating pictographs vitality.