This image is from a reprint of an old Finnish ABC-book1. It depicts an anthropomorphic cartoon cat (called "Manu") holding a sign that says "C-A-T"2. What I like about this image is that we have:
- An index of a cat as the cat points to itself.
- A symbol of a cat in the form of the written text.
- An icon of a cat in the form of the cat drawing.
Furthermore, the text below translates to:
C FOR CAT
SAYS MANU
MEANING HIMSELF
So the text is referring on how the self-referential cat is referring to himself. I don't remember seeing things so overtly (self-)indexed since reading Hofstadter.
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Miinan ja Manun Juhla-Aapinen, Teutori, Kustannusosakeyhtiö Otava (2020). ↩
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Finnish is written pretty much exactly as it is pronounced, so there is less of a hassle in teaching children how to spell words. But Finnish words can be kinda long, and it is important to learn how they are broken into syllables. So here we actually demonstrate the syllablization of the word "KISSA" (cat) as "KIS-SA". ↩