The Background of Normative Pictures

Normative pictures are in use in various fields of legal practice (e.g. urban planning, contract design, and legal communication addressed to foreigners). A background knowledge enables the understanding of this sort of pictures and affects both the morphology of the normative picture and its practical use. This paper is divided into two parts. The first part will focus on the morphology of the normative picture. The second part of the paper focuses on the different uses of normative pictures. Normative pictures with the same morphology can play very different roles because their relationship with the rules can vary.