Sign, Symbol, and Script
Author : Hans Jensen
Publisher : London : Allen & Unwin
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 30,63 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN :
Scripts and Literacy
Author : I. Taylor
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 10,25 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9401111626
Book Description
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.
Sign, Symbol, Script ; an Exhibition on the Origins of Writing and the Alphabet
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 44,53 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Alphabet
ISBN :
Book Description
A traveling exhibit on the history of writing and the alphabet, organized by the Dept. of Hebrew and Semetic Studies.
Signs and Symbols
Author : Adrian Frutiger
Publisher :
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 20,73 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
Book Description
Discusses the elements of a sign, and looks at pictograms, alphabets, calligraphy, monograms, text type, numerical signs, symbols, and trademarks.
The Origins of Writing
Author : Wayne M. Senner
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 44,30 MB
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780803291676
Book Description
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.
Symbol Sourcebook
Author : Henry Dreyfuss
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 38,76 MB
Release : 1991-01-16
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780471288725
Book Description
"A ready reference aid and an inspiration to designers . All in all the best book now available on symbols." --Library Journal This unparalleled reference represents a major achievement in the field of graphic design. Famed industrial designer Henry Dreyfuss recognized the importance of symbols in communicating more quickly and effectively; for many years he and his staff collected and codified graphic symbols as they are used in all walks of life throughout the world. The result is this "dictionary" of universally used graphic symbols. Henry Dreyfuss designed this sourcebook to be as practical and easy to use as possible by arranging the symbol information within ingeniously devised sections: Basic Symbols represents a concise and highly selective grouping of symbols common to all disciplines (on-off, up-down, etc.). Disciplines provides symbols used in accommodations and travel, agriculture, architecture, business, communications, engineering, photography, sports, safety, traffic controls, and many other areas. Color lists the meanings of each of the colors in various worldwide applications and cultures. Graphic Form displays symbols from all disciplines grouped according to form (squares, circles, arrows, human figures, etc.) creating a unique way to identify a symbol out of context, as well as giving designers a frame of reference for developing new symbols. To make the sourcebook truly universal, the Table of Contents contains translations of each of the section titles and discipline areas into 17 languages in addition to English.
The Study of Language
Author : George Yule
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 25,27 MB
Release : 2010-03-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1139486764
Book Description
This best-selling textbook provides an engaging and user-friendly introduction to the study of language. Assuming no prior knowledge in the subject, Yule presents information in short, bite-sized sections, introducing the major concepts in language study – from how children learn language to why men and women speak differently, through all the key elements of language. This fourth edition has been revised and updated with twenty new sections, covering new accounts of language origins, the key properties of language, text messaging, kinship terms and more than twenty new word etymologies. To increase student engagement with the text, Yule has also included more than fifty new tasks, including thirty involving data analysis, enabling students to apply what they have learned. The online study guide offers students further resources when working on the tasks, while encouraging lively and proactive learning. This is the most fundamental and easy-to-use introduction to the study of language.
Grammatical Literature
Author : Hartmut Scharfe
Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 36,95 MB
Release : 1977
Category : India
ISBN : 9783447017060
Book Description
Scribes, Script, and Books
Author : Leila Avrin
Publisher : American Library Association
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 20,66 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0838910386
Book Description
In this detailed overview of the history of the handmade book, Avrin looks at the development of scripts and styles of illumination, the making of manuscripts, and the technological processes involved in paper-making and book-binding. Readers will have a greater understanding of ancient books and texts with More than 300 plates and illustrations Examples of the different forms of writing from ancient times to the printing press Coverage of cultural and religious books Full bibliography Reference librarians and educators will find this resource indispensable.
Scriptinformatics
Author : Dr. habil. Gábor Hosszú
Publisher : Nap Kiadó
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 48,75 MB
Release : 2021-02-05
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9633321786
Book Description
Scripts (writing systems) usually belong to specific languages and have temporal, spatial and cultural characteristics. The evolution of scripts has been the subject of research for a long time. This is probably because the long-term development of human thinking is reflected in the surviving script relics, many of which are still undeciphered today. The book presents the study of the script evolution with the mathematical tools of systematics, phylogenetics and bioinformatics. In the research described, the script is the evolutionary taxonomic unit (taxon), which is analogous to the concept of biological species. Among the methods of phylogenetics, phenetics classifies the investigated taxa on the basis of their morphological similarity, and does not primarily examine genealogical relationships. Due to the scarcity of morphological diversity of scripts’ features, random coincidences of evolution-independent features are much more common in scripts than in biological species, thus phenetic modelling based solely on morphological features can lead to erroneous results. For this reason, phenetic modeling has been extended with evolutionary considerations, thereby allowing the modelling uncertainties observed in the script evolution to be addressed due to the large number of random coincidences (homoplasies) characterizing each script. The book describes an extended phenetic method developed to investigate the script evolution. This data-driven approach helps to reduce the impact of the uncertainties inherent in the phenetic model due to the large number of homoplasies that occur during the evolution of scripts. The elaborated phenetic and evolutionary analyses were applied to the Rovash scripts used on the Eurasian Steppe (Grassland), including the Turkic Rovash (Turkic Runic/runiform) and the Székely-Hungarian Rovash. The evaluation of the extended phenetic model of the scripts, the various phenograms, the script spectra and the group spectra helped to reconstruct the main ancestors and evolutionary stages of the investigated scripts.
