Author: Sauseuil (chevalier de, Jean-Nicolas)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : French language
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
An Analysis of the French Orthography
Author: Sauseuil (chevalier de, Jean-Nicolas)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : French language
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
An analysis of the French orthography: or the true principles of the French pronunciation exhibited in several easy ... schemes and tables
Author: Jean Nicolas JOUIN DE SAUSEUILPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Handbook of Orthography and Literacy
Author: R. Malatesha JoshiPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113678134X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 1203
Book Description
Until about two decades ago, the study of writing systems and their relationship to literacy acquisition was sparse and generally modeled after studies of English language learners. This situation is now changing. As the worldwide demand for literacy continues to grow, researchers from different countries with different language backgrounds have begun examining the connection between their writing systems and literacy acquisition. This text, which derives from a NATO sponsored conference on orthography and literacy, brings together the research of 70 scholars from across the world--the largest assemblage of such experts to date. Their findings are grouped into three parts, as follows: Part I, Literacy Acquisition in Different Writing Systems, describes the relationship between orthography and literacy in twenty-five orthographic systems. This section serves as a handy reference source for understanding the orthographies of languages as diverse as Arabic, Chinese, English, Icelandic, Kannada, and Kishwahili. Part II, Literacy Acquisition From a Cross-Linguistic Perspective, makes direct comparisons of literacy acquisition in English and other orthographic systems. The overall conclusion that emerges from these eight chapters is that the depth of an orthographic system does influence literacy acquisition primarily by slowing down the acquisition of reading skills. Even so, studies show that dyslexic readers can be found across all orthographic systems whether shallow or deep, which shows that dyslexia also has internal cognitive and biological components. Part III, Literacy Acquisition: Instructional Perspectives, explores literacy acquisition from developmental and instructional perspectives and ends with a look into the future of literacy research. This Handbook is appropriate for scholars, researchers, and graduate students in such diverse fields as cognitive psychology, psycholinguistics, literacy education, English as a second language, and communication disorders.
Bibliotheca Britannica; Or a General Index to British and Foreign Literature: Subjects
Author: Robert WattPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 776
Book Description
Bibliotheca Britannica: Subjects
Author: Robert WattPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 784
Book Description
Bibliotheca Britannica; Or a General Index to British and Foreign Literature. By Robert Watt, M.D. in Two Parts: - Authors and Subjects
Author: Bibliotheca Britannica
Author: Robert WattThe Prosthetic Tongue
Author: Katie ChenowethPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812251490
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Of all the cultural "revolutions" brought about by the development of printing technology during the sixteenth century, perhaps the most remarkable but least understood is the purported rise of European vernacular languages. It is generally accepted that the invention of printing constitutes an event in the history of language that has profoundly shaped modernity, and yet the exact nature of this transformation—the mechanics of the event—has remained curiously unexamined. In The Prosthetic Tongue, Katie Chenoweth explores the relationship between printing and the vernacular as it took shape in sixteenth-century France and charts the technological reinvention of French across a range of domains, from typography, orthography, and grammar to politics, pedagogy, and poetics. Under François I, the king known in his own time as the "Father of Letters," both printing and vernacular language emerged as major cultural and political forces. Beginning in 1529, French underwent a remarkable transformation, as printers and writers began to reimagine their mother tongue as mechanically reproducible. The first accent marks appeared in French texts, the first French grammar books and dictionaries were published, phonetic spelling reforms were debated, modern Roman typefaces replaced gothic scripts, and French was codified as a legal idiom. This was, Chenoweth argues, a veritable "new media" moment, in which the print medium served as the underlying material apparatus and conceptual framework for a revolutionary reinvention of the vernacular. Rather than tell the story of the origin of the modern French language, however, she seeks to destabilize this very notion of "origin" by situating the cultural formation of French in a scene of media technology and reproducibility. No less than the paper book issuing from sixteenth-century printing presses, the modern French language is a product of the age of mechanical reproduction.
British Museum Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: The New Spelling Dictionary
Author: John EntickPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description