TOWARDS THE THEORY OF STRUCTURES OF MAPS IN THEIR DEEP CONCEPT DIMENSION

As has been already suggested, especially by Schlichtmann (1985) and H ead (1984), the parallel between language and cartographic communicati on is possible only in the deep, concept dimension of both texts and m aps. On the basis of this assumption an attempt to develop a systemati cal comparison between the mental-dimension of maps and texts has been undertaken. propositions as semantic structures of texts are compared to map objects. The notions of informational structure (given-new con tract) of map-objects, and its dependency on the context are introduce d. Finally, map and text structures are compared on the basis of the v an Dijk's (1980) theory of macrostructures.