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Author: Alexander Humez Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0190295945 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 269
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Despite the humble origins of its name (Anglo Saxon for "the speck at the head of a boil"), the dot has been one of the most versatile players in the history of written communication, to the point that it has become virtually indispensable. Now, in On the Dot, Alexander and Nicholas Humez offer a wide ranging, entertaining account of this much overlooked and minuscule linguistic sign. The Humez brothers shed light on the dot in all its various forms. As a mark of punctuation, they show, it plays many roles--as sentence stopper, a constituent of the colon (a clause stopper), and the ellipsis (dot dot dot). In musical notation, it denotes "and a half." In computerese, it has several different functions (as in dot com, the marker between a file name and its extension, and in some slightly more arcane uses in programming languages). The dot also plays a number of roles in mathematics, including the notation of world currency (such as dollars dot cents), in Morse code (dots and dashes), and in the raised dots of Braille. And as the authors connect all these dots, they take readers on an engaging tour of the highways and byways of language, ranging from the history of the question mark and its lesser known offshoots the point d'ironie and the interrobang, to acronyms and backronyms, power point bullets and asterisks, emoticons and the "at-sign." Playful, wide-ranging, and delightfully informative, On the Dot reveals how thoroughly the dot is embedded in our everyday world of words and ideas, acquiring a power inversely proportional to its diminutive size.
Author: William Daniels Publisher: U of Nebraska Press ISBN: 1612349021 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 280
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There I Go Again is a celebrity memoir like no other, revealing the life of a man whose acting career has been so rich that millions of Americans know his face even while they might not recognize his name. William Daniels is an enigma--a rare chameleon who has enjoyed massive success both in Hollywood and on Broadway and been embraced by fans of successive generations. Few of his peers inspire the fervor with which buffs celebrate his most iconic roles, among them George Feeny in Boy Meets World, KITT in Knight Rider, Dr. Mark Craig in St. Elsewhere, and John Adams in the play and film 1776. Daniels guides readers through some of Hollywood's most cherished productions, offering recollections of entertainment legends including Lauren Bacall, Warren Beatty, Kirk Douglas, Michael Douglas, Audrey Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe, Mike Nichols, Jason Robards, Barbra Streisand, and many more. Looking back on his seventy-five-plus-year career, Daniels realizes that although he never had the courage to say "no" to being an actor, he backed into stardom. With his wife, actress Bonnie Bartlett, by his side, he came to realize that he wound up exactly where he was supposed to be: on the screen and stage.
Author: Patricia Crain Publisher: Stanford University Press ISBN: 9780804731751 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 342
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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: Rev. Gretchen A.L. Schork, OCL:AL Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 0359768563 Category : Body, Mind & Spirit Languages : en Pages : 272
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For a long time, we have been dependent on other cultures to find alphabetic magic for our own lives. In this book, a system is presented that will accomodate every magical technique used with the other alphabets, but using the familiar American alphabet that we all know and use daily. This is a complete handbook for the system. All the parts are described and illustrated for those who wish to explore this new way of bringing magic into the magical practice. While a lot remains to be published in the specifics that are mentioned, this book will give you all the tools to work with the system. If you prefer to apply your own magical alphabet to the system, you can. Correspondences are provided in the Appendix. But here is a way to work with a language you know, with letters you are already acquainted with, in a variety of ways that are new.
Author: Matt Wohlfarth Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781542641494 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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Go from zero to funny in one book with ABC's of Stand-up Comedy. This quick-hitting guide is essential to any person interested in a career in stand-up comedy.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Small Business. Subcommittee No. 1 Publisher: ISBN: Category : Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations Languages : en Pages : 1182
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 1752
Author: Alexander Humez
Author: Alexander Humez
Author: William Daniels
Author: George Sarton
Author: Patricia Crain
Author: Rev. Gretchen A.L. Schork, OCL:AL
Author: Matt Wohlfarth
Author: United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Small Business. Subcommittee No. 1
Author: United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Small Business
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations
Author: Alexander Humez