CITATION AND COPYRIGHT INFORMATION:
Cite as: Dervin, B. (1975/2002). Communicating ideas: An adapted guide to Richard F. Carter’s early picturing language. Unpublished manuscript.
© Brenda Dervin (1975 & 2002).

ABSTRACT:
Richard F. Carter, emeritus professor of the School of Communication, University of Washington, developed in the early 70s an iconic “picturing” language for capturing the nature of the relationships between entities referred to in usual linear language statements but which cannot be well stated given the constraints of linear language. Carter has called his adjunct language PIX (Carter, 1979). This paper represents Dervin’s attempt to present Carter’s version of “picturing” as she understood it in the early 1970s.

In developing this guide, Dervin drew upon instructional tools created by Richard Carter, Manji Pendakur, Keith Stamm, and Diane Tefft—all of whom were at the University of Washington School of Communication in 1975. Interested readers are directed to: Carter, R. F. (1979). A journalistic cybernetic. In K. Krippendorff (Ed.), Communication and control in society (pp. 475-488). New York: Gordon & Breach. A comprehensive bibliography of Carter’s work and diverse viewpoints on the impacts of his theorizings and tool developments on communication studies may be found in: Dervin, B. & Chaffee, S. H. (with Foreman-Wernet, L.). (2003). Communication, A different kind of horse race: Essays honoring Richard F. Carter. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press. To purchase a copy of this book, visit www.amazon.com, or contact Hampton Press at (800) 894-8955.

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