Sign, Symbol, and Script
Author | : Hans Jensen |
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Total Pages | : 628 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Alphabet |
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Author | : Hans Jensen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 628 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Alphabet |
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Author | : I. Taylor |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 381 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9401111626 |
Literacy is a concern of all nations of the world, whether they be classified as developed or undeveloped. A person must be able to read and write in order to function adequately in society, and reading and writing require a script. But what kinds of scripts are in use today, and how do they influence the acquisition, use and spread of literacy? Scripts and Literacy is the first book to systematically explore how the nature of a script affects how it is read and how one learns to read and write it. It reveals the similarities underlying the world's scripts and the features that distinguish how they are read. Scholars from different parts of the world describe several different scripts, e.g. Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Indian Amerindian -- and how they are learned. Research data and theories are presented. This book should be of primary interest to educators and researchers in reading and writing around the world.
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Writing |
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Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Alphabet |
ISBN | : |
A traveling exhibit on the history of writing and the alphabet, organized by the Dept. of Hebrew and Semetic Studies.
Author | : Adrian Frutiger |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
Discusses the elements of a sign, and looks at pictograms, alphabets, calligraphy, monograms, text type, numerical signs, symbols, and trademarks.
Author | : State Historical Society of Wisconsin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 88 |
Release | : 1983 |
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Author | : Hans Jensen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : |
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Author | : Adrian Frutiger |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Signs and symbols |
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Author | : Wayne M. Senner |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1991-01-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780803291676 |
This collection of 12 essays outlines what is now known about the origins and development of writing. The topics discussed include such precursors to writing as the tokens used for record-keeping in the Middle East, as well as cuneiform and Egyptian hieroglyphics.The alphabet is treated from its invention to its use in Arabic, Greek and Latin. Also presented are the writing systems of China and Middle America and two European systems, runes and ogham, that have been superseded by the Latin alphabet. An introduction surveys the subject and explores myths and theories on the invention of writing.
Author | : Roy Harris |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780415100885 |
By treating writing as an independent mode of communication, based on the use of spatial relations to connect events separated in time, the author shows how other forms of writing obey the same principles.In Signs of Writing Roy Harris re-examines basic questions about writing that have long been obscured by the traditional assumption that writing is merely a visual substitute for speech.By treating writing as an independent mode of communication, based on the use of spatial relations to connect events separated in time, the author shows how musical, mathematical and other forms of writing obey the same principles as verbal writing. These principles, he argues, apply to texts of all kinds: a sonnet, a symphonic score, a signature on a cheque and a supermarket label. Moreover, they apply throughout the history of writing, from hieroglyphics to hypertext.This is the first book to provide a new general theory of writing in over forty years. Signs of Writing will be essential reading for anyone interested in language and communication.