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Author : Hunter Diack
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book In Spite of the Alphabet written by Hunter Diack and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hunter Diack
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Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (111 download)
Download or read book In spite of the alphabet written by Hunter Diack and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Johanna Drucker
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226815811
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)
Download or read book Inventing the Alphabet written by Johanna Drucker and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2022-07-26 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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 : Roger D. Woodard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107028116
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book The Textualization of the Greek Alphabet written by Roger D. Woodard and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-24 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that when the Greeks first began to use the alphabet, they viewed themselves as participants in a performance phenomenon.
Author : Isaac Taylor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The Alphabet written by Isaac Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nkosi Ajanaku
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book The Alphabet written by Nkosi Ajanaku and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Wim Borsboom
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 146026231X
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (62 download)
Download or read book Alphabet or Abracadabra? written by Wim Borsboom and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2015-07-16 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Alphabet or Abracadabra? - Reverse Engineering The Western Alphabet” details a ground-breaking discovery: the origin of the western ‘abecedary’ - the alphabet's sequence of letters.(Not to be confused with the origin of the design of the western alphabet letters.) It must have been somewhere between 3400 and 3700 years ago that the western alphabet's linear sequence of characters (abecedary) was created by following an already existing tabular model of a South Asian Pre-Sanskrit ‘abugida’ or ‘alpha-syllabary’. In spite of it looking quite disorderly, the western alphabet letter sequence is found to be based on that ancient orderly pattern, a pattern that categorized sounds by how and where they were articulated in the mouth. This study retraces the steps of how that copying process took place, a process that also included a number of 'errors and omissions' made by one, perhaps two ancient scribes most likely from the Near East. The errors eventually resulted in the apparent disorder of the western 'ABC'. By tracking these 'copied' errors across a number of ancient alphabets, the author was not only able to reconstruct the copying process, but he also arrived at a date before which it must have taken place.
Author : Ulrich Baer
Publisher : Fordham University Press
ISBN 13 : 0823256324
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (232 download)
Download or read book The Rilke Alphabet written by Ulrich Baer and published by Fordham University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-15 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The enduring power of Rainer Maria Rilke’s poetry rests with his claim that all we need for a better life on earth is already given to us, in the here and now. In twenty-six engaging and accessible essays, Ulrich Baer’s The Rilke Alphabet examines this promise by one of the greatest poets in any tradition that even the smallest overlooked word may unlock life’s mysteries to us. Fueled by an unebbing passion and indeed love for Rilke’s poetry, Baer examines twenty-six words that are not only unexpected but also problematic, controversial, and even scandalous in Rilke’s work. In twenty-six mesmerizing essays that eschew jargon and teutonic learnedness for the pleasures and risks of unflinchingly engaging with a great artist’s genius, Baer sheds new light on Rilke’s politics, his creative process, and his deepest and enduring thoughts about life, art, politics, sexuality, love, and death. The Rilke Alphabet shows how Rilke’s work provides an uncannily apt guide to life even in our vexingly postmodern condition. Whether it is a love letter to frogs, a problematic brief infatuation with Mussolini, a sustained reflection on the Buddha, the evasion of the influence of powerful precursors, or the unambiguous assertion that freedom must be lived in order to be known, Rilke’s writings pull us deeply into life. Baer’s decades-long engagement with Rilke as a scholar, translator, and editor of Rilke’s writings allows him to reveal unique aspects of Rilke’s work. The Rilke Alphabet will surprise and delight Rilke fans, intrigue newcomers to his work, and deepen every reader’s sense of the power of poetry to penetrate the mysteries and confusions of our world.
Author : Gerard Clauson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134430124
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (344 download)
Download or read book Studies in Turkic and Mongolic Linguistics written by Gerard Clauson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-11-04 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, now back in print having been unavailable for many years, is one of the most important contributions to Turkic and Mongolic linguistics, and to the contentious 'Altaic theory'. Proponents of the theory hold that Turkish is part of the Altaic family, and that Turkish accordingly exists in parallel with Mongolic and Tungusic-Manchu. Whatever the truth of this theory, Gerard Clauson's erudite and vigorously expressed views, based as they were on a remarkable knowledge of the lexicon of the Altaic languages and his outstanding work in the field of Turkish lexicography, continues to command respect and deserve attention.
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Total Pages : 1046 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (29 download)
Download or read book The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A to Aus written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 1046 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dunja Rasic
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 1905937687
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (59 download)
Download or read book The Written World of God written by Dunja Rasic and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2021-12-07 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Written World of God is the first systematic overview of the science of letters ('ilm al-huruf) according to the great Andalusian spiritual master, scholar, poet and philosopher Ibn 'Arabi (d. 1240). Ibn 'Arabi defined the science of letters as familiarity with the building blocks of the Quranic revelation and everything in the world of nature. Letters are understood as visual and aural signs pointing to the mysteries of existence. The present study examines how the universe came to be, for what purpose it was created and the hierarchical structure it is endowed with. It is an old story told anew - through the 28 letters of the Arabic alphabet, their orthographic forms and the meanings attributed to them, using Ibn 'Arabi's own diagrams. Although the story could be told through geometric figures or numbers, letters were chosen on the basis of Ibn 'Arabi's doctrine that the meanings carried by the letters fully encompasses the whole of existence: God and the universe.
Author : Hugh Chisholm
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1046 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Encyclopaedia Britannica written by Hugh Chisholm and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 1046 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This eleventh edition was developed during the encyclopaedia's transition from a British to an American publication. Some of its articles were written by the best-known scholars of the time and it is considered to be a landmark encyclopaedia for scholarship and literary style.
Author : Josef Steindl
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Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (959 download)
Download or read book In Spite of the Alphabet written by Josef Steindl and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ella Flagg Young
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (76 download)
Download or read book The Educational Bi-monthly written by Ella Flagg Young and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J. Downing
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0080867030
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (88 download)
Download or read book Cognitive Psychology and Reading in the USSR written by J. Downing and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ideas of Soviet specialists on the psychology and teaching of reading are here made available in English.The volume gives an overview of psychology and education in the U.S.S.R., and presents translations of the work of major Soviet authors, such as Elkonin and Luria. The contributions offer many valuable proposals for teaching literacy which are quite unique outside of the Soviet Union. A concluding chapter provides a commentary, tracing the links between these specialist contributions and the general cognitive theories of Vygotsky.The result of ten years of research, this book was completed by Professor Downing shortly before he passed away in June 1987.
Author : Sin-Wai Chan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131738248X
Total Pages : 1085 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)
Download or read book The Routledge Encyclopedia of the Chinese Language written by Sin-Wai Chan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-14 with total page 1085 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Encyclopedia of the Chinese Language is an invaluable resource for language learners and linguists of Chinese worldwide, those interested readers of Chinese literature and cultures, and scholars in Chinese studies. Featuring the research on the changing landscape of the Chinese language by a number of eminent academics in the field, this volume will meet the academic, linguistic and pedagogical needs of anyone interested in the Chinese language: from Sinologists to Chinese linguists, as well as teachers and learners of Chinese as a second language. The encyclopedia explores a range of topics: from research on oracle bone and bronze inscriptions, to Chinese language acquisition, to the language of the mass media. This reference offers a guide to shifts over time in thinking about the Chinese language as well as providing an overview of contemporary themes, debates and research interests. The editors and contributors are assisted by an editorial board comprised of the best and most experienced sinologists world-wide. The reference includes an introduction, written by the editor, which places the assembled texts in their historical and intellectual context. The Encyclopedia of the Chinese Language is destined to be valued by scholars and students as a vital research resource.
Author : Elhanan Winchester Reynolds
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Tangletown Letters written by Elhanan Winchester Reynolds and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
