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Author: Stephen D. Houston Publisher: ISBN: 9781934691427 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 0
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This book builds on earlier projects about the origins and extinctions of script traditions throughout the world in an effort to address the fundamental questions of how and why writing systems change. The contributors--who study ancient scripts from Arabic to Roman, from Bronze Age China to Middle Kingdom Egypt--utilize an approach that views writing less as a technology than as a mode of communication, one that is socially learned and culturally transmitted.
Author: Stephen D. Houston Publisher: ISBN: 9781934691427 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
This book builds on earlier projects about the origins and extinctions of script traditions throughout the world in an effort to address the fundamental questions of how and why writing systems change. The contributors--who study ancient scripts from Arabic to Roman, from Bronze Age China to Middle Kingdom Egypt--utilize an approach that views writing less as a technology than as a mode of communication, one that is socially learned and culturally transmitted.
Author: Dustin McNeill Publisher: ISBN: 9780578586816 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 440
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Silver Shamrock. Thorn. White Horses. It's all in here. Join authors Dustin McNeill and Travis Mullins for a deep dive into the evolution of Halloween's vast mythology. Extensively researched, TAKING SHAPE is the ultimate guide to the first forty years of Haddonfield history. Featuring exclusive interviews with filmmakers from every installment, prepare to gain new insight into Halloween's iconic boogeyman. Oh, you don't believe in the boogeyman? You should. TAKING SHAPE includes: - Comprehensive story analysis on the entire series - A rundown of all deleted and alternate scenes - A look at what scholars got right (and wrong) about H1 - Exclusive details on Nigel Kneale's original H3 script - Comparisons of early scripts to the final theatrical films - A rare interview with H5 screenwriter Michael Jacobs - An exhaustive account of H6's troubled production - An examination of H20's roots as a direct-to-video sequel - A revealing look behind the grunge of the Rob Zombie era - Insight into how test audiences and execs shaped the films - In-depth dissection of the official novelizations
Author: Hye K. Pae Publisher: Springer Nature ISBN: 3030551520 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 251
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This open access volume reveals the hidden power of the script we read in and how it shapes and drives our minds, ways of thinking, and cultures. Expanding on the Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis (i.e., the idea that language affects the way we think), this volume proposes the “Script Relativity Hypothesis” (i.e., the idea that the script in which we read affects the way we think) by offering a unique perspective on the effect of script (alphabets, morphosyllabaries, or multi-scripts) on our attention, perception, and problem-solving. Once we become literate, fundamental changes occur in our brain circuitry to accommodate the new demand for resources. The powerful effects of literacy have been demonstrated by research on literate versus illiterate individuals, as well as cross-scriptal transfer, indicating that literate brain networks function differently, depending on the script being read. This book identifies the locus of differences between the Chinese, Japanese, and Koreans, and between the East and the West, as the neural underpinnings of literacy. To support the “Script Relativity Hypothesis”, it reviews a vast corpus of empirical studies, including anthropological accounts of human civilization, social psychology, cognitive psychology, neuropsychology, applied linguistics, second language studies, and cross-cultural communication. It also discusses the impact of reading from screens in the digital age, as well as the impact of bi-script or multi-script use, which is a growing trend around the globe. As a result, our minds, ways of thinking, and cultures are now growing closer together, not farther apart.
Author: Alex de Voogt Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004217002 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 262
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The Idea of Writing is an exploration of the versatility of writing systems. This volume, the second in a series, is specifically concerned with the problems and possibilities of adapting a writing system to another language. Writing is studied as it is used across linguistic and cultural borders from ancient Egyptian, Cuneiform and Korean writing to Japanese, Kharosthi and Near Eastern scripts. This collection of articles aims to highlight the complexity of writing systems rather than to provide a first introduction. The different academic traditions in which these writing systems have been studied use linguistic, socio-historical and philological approaches that give complementary insights of the complex phenomena.
Author: Susanne R. Borgwaldt Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing ISBN: 9027271852 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 174
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Typology research is extremely important in both proposing classification frameworks and in promoting the careful investigation and analysis of the core concepts inherent within the classification contrasts employed. More exemplary of the latter aspect, the present collection of papers on the typology of writing systems address a number of significant linguistic and psycholinguistic issues surrounding the classification of writing systems. The seven contributions within this volume, which originally appeared as a special issue of Written Language and Literacy 14:1 (2011), cover a wide variety of issues, ranging from an overview of writing system typology research, comparative graphematics, letter-shape similarities, the morphographic principle, tone orthography typology, measuring graphematic transparency, to unconventional spellings within online chat. Reflecting the growing interest in writing, the book will be of interest to advanced students and researchers working on writing systems, written language, and reading research.
Author: Jakub Zdebik Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1441157794 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 382
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Deleuze and the Diagram charts Deleuze's corpus according to aesthetic concepts such as the map, the sketch and the drawing to bring out a comprehensive concept of the diagram. In his interrogation of Deleuze's visual aesthetic theory, Jakub Zdebik focuses on artists that hold an important place in Deleuze's system. The art of Paul Klee and Francis Bacon is presented as the visual manifestation of Deleuze's philosophy and yields novel ways of assessing visual culture. Zdebik goes on to compare Deleuze's philosophy with the visual theories of Foucault, Lyotard and Simondon, as well as the aesthetic philosophy of Heidegger and Kant. He shows how the visual and aesthetic elements of the diagram shed new light on Deleuze's writings. Deleuze conceptualized his theory as a form of painting, saying that, like art, it needed to shift from figuration to abstraction. This book focuses on the visual devices in Deleuze's work and uses the concept of the diagram to describe the relationship between philosophy and art and to formulate a way to think about philosophy through art.
Author: Craig Batty Publisher: Springer Nature ISBN: 303048713X Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 296
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This book offers the first international look at how script development is theorised and practiced. Drawing on interviews, case studies, discourse analysis, creative practices and industry experiences, it brings together scholars and practitioners from around the world to offer critical insights into this core, but often hidden, aspect of screenwriting and screen production. Chapters speculate and reflect upon how creative, commercial and social practices – in which ideas, emotions, people and personalities combine, cohere and clash – are shaped by the practicalities, policies and rapid movements of the screen industry. Comprising two parts, the book first looks ‘into’ script development from a theoretical perspective, and second looks ‘out from’ the practice to form practitioner-led perspectives of script development. With a rising interest in screenwriting and production studies, and an increased appetite for practice-based research, the book offers a timely mapping of the terrain of script development, providing rich foundations for both study and practice.
Author: Dimitrios Meletis Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG ISBN: 3110757893 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 359
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Grapholinguistics, the multifaceted study of writing systems, is growing increasingly popular, yet to date no coherent account covering and connecting its major branches exists. This book now gives an overview of the core theoretical and empirical questions of this field. A treatment of the structure of writing systems—their relation to speech and language, their material features, linguistic functions, and norms, as well as the different types in which they come—is complemented by perspectives centring on the use of writing, incorporating psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic issues such as reading processes or orthographic variation as social action. Examples stem from a variety of diverse systems such as Chinese, English, Japanese, Arabic, Thai, German, and Korean, which allows defining concepts in a broadly applicable way and thereby constructing a comparative grapholinguistic framework that provides readers with important tools for studying any writing system. The book emphasizes that grapholinguistics is a discipline in its own right, inviting discussion and further research in this up-and-coming field as well as an overdue integration of writing into general linguistic discussion.
Author: Santo Saba Piliang Publisher: Santo Saba Piliang ISBN: Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 298
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WE ARE NOT FROM INDIA TO ARAB BECAUSE OF BOTH FROM HERE Question: When and who did the "Indian" missionaries come to the archipelago to go to remote corners of the country ... so that all the original teachings of the archipelago, thousands of sites as well as the "Pre-Islamic" kingdom were called from India ...? Pay attention to: The origins of Religion in India began with the entry of the Aryan / Cakya / Saka Nation which brought enormous changes in the life order of Indian society from 3,102 BC to 1,300 BC That the Aryans were not the first inhabitants of India and the Harappan "Dravidian" civilization existed long before their arrival, This means that the Aryan or Vedic culture was not the sole source of early civilization in India, that the source came from somewhere else. This change occurred because the "Aryan" people integrated their culture with the native Indian nation "Dravida" and then this integration gave birth to 3 Indian religions, the Aryan Nation after it started writing the Vedic scriptures, this holy book is written in 4 parts such as Reg Veda, Sama Veda, Yayur Veda, and Atharwa Veda So ... "Saka" is the name of a nation who came to India and expanded to migrate to Central Asia, Eastern Europe and North Anatolia in the period after the Mahabharata war (3162 BC) around 3100-3000 BC, Europeans called the "Saka. "with" Scythian "this is what is meant by" Aryan ", the ancestors of the Indonesian nation who colored 3/4 of the earth's face as well as the land of India. The literacy of the word Aryā is recorded in the opening sentence of the Kalasan inscription with a sentence..Namo bhagavatyai āryā tārā yai ... "īrī-Nālandā-Mahāvihārīya-Ārya Bhikṣusaḿghasya" ... the text of this sentence is written in Nalanda Bihar india on a stupa named "Sariputra" .... this is clearly the name of Nusantara not India Aryān is the ancestor of the Indonesian archipelago, the former name "Sariputra" was the son of the archipelago, a pioneer figure for the birth of one of the Indian teachings which is now "Label" in Borobudur, he was born from a mother named "Sari" in Svarnabhumi / Svarnadvipa, Nusantara Indonesia before the 5th century BC Hirananda Shastri, In 1921, in the vestibule of the Monastery no. 1 at Nalanda Bihar University India, found artifacts in the form of a copper plate "Donation Balaputradeva, Raja Suvarnadvipa lineage of Syailendra "Nalanda Copper palate", which was found in Vihara I Nalanda in India, Written by King Phala of Syailendra descent named Balaputradewa from Svarnadvipa, ... meaning "Nalanda" in Bihar India founded in 427 AD built by and on the initiative of Sailendra Srivijaya from Sumatra. .. after Fa-Huan 337 - 422 AD to the Archipelago
Author: Stephen D. Houston
Author: Stephen D. Houston
Author: Dustin McNeill
Author: Hye K. Pae
Author: Alex de Voogt
Author: Susanne R. Borgwaldt
Author: Jakub Zdebik
Author: Craig Batty
Author: Dimitrios Meletis
Author: Santo Saba Piliang
Author: Jacob Hoftijzer