1. - Latvijas Universitāte

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true, it is proved that congenitally blind people can get sufficient amount of information
about visual images and phenomena via tactile and auditory senses.
Therefore, the rhetoric of tactile images, which starts with the so-called
typographical tradition and obtains a multi-modal characer in the context of media
pedagogy, is one of the key issues to understand and analyze this informational
compensation mechanism.
Keywords: media pedagogy, visual communication, tactile image, graphic literacy,
intersemiotic translation, multi-modal learning environment.