[PDF] Icons Of The Alphabet eBook

Author : Gree-Oh! Smart
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 30,15 MB
Release : 2021-10-02
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Color, trace and practice the Alphabet while learning about Black History Icons. Icon's who have helped NASA orbit around the Moon, NBA All-Stars, Activist, Presidents, and more. Bringing education back to our culture in a fun interactive way.

Author : Ruud Janssen (infographiste).)
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 17,11 MB
Release : 2021
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ISBN : 9789079917907

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With 26 handstands it is possible to present the alphabet. Yet how does one capture the immense variation of the hand shapes of gestures and signs? Every sign, moreover, has a movement, however small. In the exhibition Alphabetum VIII 'Gebareniconen'('Sign icons') of sign language researcher Ruud Janssen we see, by ways of panels, video and sculpture, the nuances and challenges in capturing silent language in a spatial sense. If a random person would be asked about what language is, they will probably quickly come up with associations regarding letters, alphabets and writing. This indeed belongs to a form of language, however one that is mainly derived from sound. With the exception of iconographic writing systems that incorporate image, such as Chinese characters. Nevertheless, the basis of language is not necessarily connected to literacy. After all, communication is not only verbal. Language is not just letters, sounds or writing. It is initially dependent upon the senses, after which notation systems develop that opt to capture the communicable message and try to make it 'readable'. There have been different useful and valuable notation systems that mapped the non-verbal elements of speech, such as the phonetic symbols in Visible Speech (1867) of Melville Bell, or William Stokoe with the first notation system for American Sign Language (ASL) in 1965. But it is still a complex issue. Janssen's model of Sign icons is an attempt to summarise space, movement, beginning, ending, changing positions, expression, hands and body in an icon, an image, and subsequently provide a sign script that can stand on its own, without being a derivative of another script. He takes the visitor by the hand, along the development and recording of sign language from a historical, theoretical and formal viewpoint. How to translate an idea to a visual concept, to something that can be 'read', whether it be through sight, touch, or other senses? Fitting with the Alphabetum, the exhibition is a crossover between language, theory and esthetics.

Author : Naomi Janowitz
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 49,74 MB
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780271047911

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Janowitz sifts through the polemics to make sense of the daunting mosaic of religious belief and practice in Late Antiquity. Janowitz reveals how ritual practitioners held common assumptions about why their rituals worked and how to perform them. Icons of Power makes an important contribution to our understanding of society in Late Antiquity.

Author : Steve Wide
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 39,7 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1925418383

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Shares facts about the iconic rock star, including his influence on fashion, his collaborations with other artists, and his lasting legacy.

Author : Patricia Crain
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 42,98 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780804731751

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Richly illustrated with often antic images from alphabet books and primers, The Story of A relates the history of the alphabet as a genre of text for children and of alphabetization as a social practice in America, from early modern reading primers to the literature of the American Renaissance. Offering a poetics of alphabetization and explicating the alphabet's tropes and rhetorical strategies, the author demonstrates the far-reaching cultural power of such apparently neutral statements as "A is for apple." The new market for children's books in the eighteenth century established for the "republic of ABC" a cultural potency equivalent to its high-culture counterpart, the "republic of letters," while shaping its child-readers into consumers. As a central rite of socialization, alphabetization schooled children to conflicting expectations, as well as to changing models of authority, understandings of the world, and uses of literature. In the nineteenth century, literacy became a crucial aspect of American middle-class personality and subjectivity. Furnishing the readers and writers needed for a national literature, the alphabetization of America between 1800 and 1850 informed the sentimental-reform novel as well as the self-consciously aesthetic novel of the 1850s. Through readings of conduct manuals, reading primers, and a sentimental bestseller, the author shows how the alphabet became embedded in a maternal narrative, which organized the world through domestic affections. Nathaniel Hawthorne, by contrast, insisted on the artificiality of the alphabet and its practices in his antimimetic, hermetic The Scarlet Letter, with its insistent focus on the letter A. By understanding this novel as part of the network of alphabetization, The Story of A accounts for its uniquely persistent cultural role. The author concludes, in an epilogue, with a reading of postmodern alphabets and their implications for the future of literacy.

Author : Christopher J. Hall
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 36,82 MB
Release : 2005-12-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1441140212

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'Christopher Hall's book is the best new introduction to linguistics that I have seen in decades. It is engagingly written without talking down to the reader and it covers all the subparts of the field in a comprehensive and even-handed manner. I plan to use it the next time that I teach an introductory course at Washington.' Professor Frederick J. Newmeyer, University of Washington 'With apt examples from novels and newspapers, courtroom trials and telephone conversations, the lowly and the mighty, his book repeatedly startles as it casts light on language. This is a bright, humorous, and completely accessible tour of 21st-century linguistics.' Professor Edward Finegan, University of Southern California This book introduces the fundamentals of human language from a linguistic point of view, using examples drawn from everyday life to aid comprehension, and encouraging critical thinking throughout. Besides presenting the fundamental building blocks of language and explaining how these function, the book also introduces other key elements of the discipline of linguistics, including language acquisition, applied linguistics, psycholinguistics and discourse analysis. Packed full of examples, this is the ideal introduction to language for those who are interested in studying linguistics, have already started a course, or just want to study at home.

Author : Vivian Cook
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 38,98 MB
Release : 2016-07-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1317365801

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The Routledge Handbook of the English Writing System provides a comprehensive account of the English writing system, both in its current iteration and highlighting the developing trends that will influence its future. Twenty-nine chapters written by specialists from around the world cover core linguistic and psychological aspects, and also include areas from other disciplines such as typography and computer-mediated communication. Divided into five parts, the volume encompasses a wide range of approaches and addresses issues in the following areas: theory and the English writing system, discussing the effects of etymology and phonology; the history of the English writing system from its earliest development, including spelling, pronunciation and typography; the acquisition and teaching of writing, with discussions of literacy issues and dyslexia; English writing in use around the world, both in the UK and America, and also across Europe and Japan; computer-mediated communication and developments in writing online and on social media. The Routledge Handbook of the English Writing System is essential reading for researchers and postgraduate students working in this area.