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Author | : Johanna Drucker |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 387 |
Release | : 2022-07-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0226815811 |
Download Inventing the Alphabet Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"Though there are many books about the history of the alphabet, virtually none address how that history came to be. In Inventing the Alphabet, Johanna Drucker guides readers from antiquity to the present to show how humans have shaped and reshaped their own understanding of this transformative writing tool. From ancient beliefs in the alphabet as a divine gift to growing awareness of its empirical origins through the study of scripts and inscriptions, Drucker describes the frameworks-classical, textual, biblical, graphical, antiquarian, archaeological, paleographic, and political-within which the alphabet's history has been and continues to be constructed. Drucker's book begins in ancient Greece, with the earliest writings on the alphabet's origins. She then explores biblical sources on the topic and medieval preoccupations with the magical properties of individual letters. She later delves into the development of modern archaeological and paleographic tools, and she concludes with the role of alphabetic characters in the digital era. Throughout, she argues that, as a shared form of knowledge technology integrated into every aspect of our lives, the alphabet performs complex cultural, ideological, and technical functions, and her carefully curated selection of images demonstrates how closely the letters we use today still resemble their original appearance millennia ago"--
Author | : Don Robb |
Publisher | : Charlesbridge Publishing |
Total Pages | : 51 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1570916098 |
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See how the Roman alphabet began and how it has changed through the years.
Author | : Teresa Wald |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 2016-05-16 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9781944410056 |
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This fascinating book offers a complete visual of the Egyptian, Semite, Phoenician, Greek, Roman and Cursive alphabets. In the easy-to-follow format of this book, you will witness the emergence of the alphabet and visually see its evolution all the way to the letters used to write today, in both print and cursive throughout the ages!
Author | : Allan Haley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
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"In Alphabet, noted author and typographer Allan Haley presents a lively overview of the history and graphic evolution of the Latin alphabet. Within the context of how ancient writing systems dramatically influenced the societies that conceived and adopted them, Haley examines the development of each character from a simple image representing a word or concept to an elegant graphic symbol signifying an individual sound. Haley then explores how the expressive wealth of contemporary type design reflects the complex history of each letterform. Fascinating accounts of the design development of the ampersand, the Arabic numerals, and punctuation are also included."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author | : Judith Flanders |
Publisher | : Basic Books |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 2020-10-20 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1541675061 |
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From a New York Times-bestselling historian comes the story of how the alphabet ordered our world. A Place for Everything is the first-ever history of alphabetization, from the Library of Alexandria to Wikipedia. The story of alphabetical order has been shaped by some of history's most compelling characters, such as industrious and enthusiastic early adopter Samuel Pepys and dedicated alphabet champion Denis Diderot. But though even George Washington was a proponent, many others stuck to older forms of classification -- Yale listed its students by their family's social status until 1886. And yet, while the order of the alphabet now rules -- libraries, phone books, reference books, even the order of entry for the teams at the Olympic Games -- it has remained curiously invisible. With abundant inquisitiveness and wry humor, historian Judith Flanders traces the triumph of alphabetical order and offers a compendium of Western knowledge, from A to Z. A Times (UK) Best Book of 2020
Author | : David Sacks |
Publisher | : Vintage Canada |
Total Pages | : 415 |
Release | : 2010-08-20 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0307371034 |
Download Letter Perfect Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Letters are tangible language. Joining together in endless combinations to actually show speech, letters convey our messages and tell our stories. While we encounter these tiny shapes hundreds of times a day, we take for granted the long, fascinating history behind one of the most fundamental of human inventions -- the alphabet. The heart of the book is the 26 fact-filled “biographies” of letters A through Z, each one identifying the letter’s particular significance for modern readers, tracing its development from ancient forms, and discussing its noteworthy role in literature and other media. We learn, for example, why the letter X has a sinister and sexual aura, how B came to signify second best, why the word “mother” in many languages starts with M, and what is the story of O. Packed with information and lavishly illustrated, Letter Perfect is not only accessible and entertaining, but essential to the appreciation of our own language.
Author | : David Diringer |
Publisher | : London : Hutchinson |
Total Pages | : 504 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : |
Download The Alphabet: a Key to the History of Mankind Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Isaac Taylor |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 1883 |
Genre | : Alphabet |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Young-Key Kim-Renaud |
Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : |
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A collection of ten essays which cover topics such as: arguments for King Sejong's personal creation of the script; the Asian and domestic linguistic and socio-cultural background to its creation; the principles under which each symbol was created; and the structure of phonological units.
Author | : Charles V. Kraitsir |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 72 |
Release | : 1846 |
Genre | : Alphabet |
ISBN | : |
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