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Author : Robert K. Logan
Publisher : William Morrow
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : History
ISBN : 0688063896
The author's thesis is that Western civilization's thought patterns emerged because of its phonetic alphabet.
Author : Robert K. Logan
Publisher : New York : Morrow
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Alphabet
ISBN : UCSC:32106014572900
Explores the interrelationships between the evolution of writing and documentation and the broader patterns of intellectual and cultural development.
Author : Leonard Shlain
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1999-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0140196013
This groundbreaking book proposes that the rise of alphabetic literacy reconfigured the human brain and brought about profound changes in history, religion, and gender relations. Making remarkable connections across brain function, myth, and anthropology, Dr. Shlain shows why pre-literate cultures were principally informed by holistic, right-brain modes that venerated the Goddess, images, and feminine values. Writing drove cultures toward linear left-brain thinking and this shift upset the balance between men and women, initiating the decline of the feminine and ushering in patriarchal rule. Examining the cultures of the Israelites, Greeks, Christians, and Muslims, Shlain reinterprets ancient myths and parables in light of his theory. Provocative and inspiring, this book is a paradigm-shattering work that will transform your view of history and the mind.
Author : Dan X. Solo
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-07
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780486142487
The alphabet is the message. With these special effects and topical alphabets, you can advertise or identify a product or service in lettering that reinforces your message. For example: letters shaped like chopsticks; letters made up of logs; letters made up of bones; letters frozen in ice; letters with stars and stripes. These are just a few of the alphabets you can use from the 100 fonts selected by Dan X. Solo from the Solotype Typographers Catalog. All the fonts appear in upper case, while many also have lower case and/or numerals. Whether your message is about the Fourth of July, cool refreshment, outdoor life, modern technology, summer, spring, winter, or a hundred other moods and occasions, you'll find in this collection an alphabet that tells the story. The typographic designs may be sophisticated or naïve, but all are eminently useful and difficult to find in usual sources.
Author : Robert K. Logan
Publisher : Cresskill, N.J. : Hampton Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114269603
This book is a study of this evolution of writing systems. It describes the role the phonetic alphabet has played in the development of Western civilization. Drawing a variety of conclusions about how societies advance, the author shows how the advent of mass communication and the use of computers affect how we communicate.
Author : Hye K. Pae
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-14
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783030551520
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 : Robert K. Logan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1930665997
This second edition includes 37 new pages in a new Foreword and Afterword where Logan reports on a number of new developments in his research into the origin and evolution of language. The first edition of the Sixth Language was a recipient of the Susanne K. Langer Prize of the Media Ecology Association for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Symbolic Form.
Author : Derrick de Kerckhove,Charles J. Lumsden
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-17
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783662010938
This book is a consequence of the suggestion that a major key to ward understanding cognition in any advanced culture is to be found in the relationships between processing orthographies, lan guage, and thought. In this book, the contributors attempt to take only the first step, namely to ascertain that there are reliable con stancies among the interactions between a given type of writing and specific brain processes. And, among the possible brain processes that could be investigated, only one apparently simple issue is being explored: namely, whether the lateralization of reading and writing to the right in fully phonemic alphabets is the result of formalized but essentially random occurrences, or whether some physiological determinants are at play. The original project was much more complicated. It began with Derrick de Kerckhove's attempt to establish a connection between the rise of the alphabetic culture in Athens and the development of a theatrical tradition in that city from around the end of the 6th century B. c. to the Roman conquest. The underlying assumption, first proposed in a conversation with Marshall McLuhan, was that the Greek alphabet was responsible for a fundamental change in the psychology of the Athenians and that the creation of the great tragedies of Greek theatre was a kind of cultural response to a con dition of deep psychological crisis.
Author : Marshall McLuhan
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1962-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0802060412
Since its first appearance in 1962, the impact of The Gutenberg Galaxy has been felt around the world. It gave us the concept of the global village; that phrase has now been translated, along with the rest of the book, into twelve languages, from Japanese to Serbo-Croat. It helped establish Marshall McLuhan as the original 'media guru.' More than 200,000 copies are in print. The reissue of this landmark book reflects the continuing importance of McLuhan's work for contemporary readers.
Author : H. A. Rey,Margret Rey
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-16
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780547996172
Readers learn the alphabet along with George as the man in the yellow hat teaches the curious monkey how to read.
Author : Brian Rotman
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2008-07-16
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0822342006
DIVTheoretical study of the relationship between technoscience and the human body that examines the ways in which bodies and machines "speak" not just through language but also through gesture, numbers, and other non-alphabetic systems of expressio/div
Author : Mrs. Peanuckle
Publisher : Rodale
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-19
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781623368708
Mrs. Peanuckle's Vegetable Alphabet introduces babies and toddlers to a colorful variety of vegetables, from asparagus to zucchini. Perfect to read aloud, this vegetable buffet will delight children and parents alike with its yummy vegetable facts and vibrant illustrations. Learning the ABCs has never been so delicious! Mrs. Peanuckle's Vegetable Alphabet is the first in a series of board books celebrating the joy of nature at home and in the backyard, from fresh fruits and vegetables to birds, bugs, flowers, and trees.
Author : Judith Flanders
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781541675063
From a New York Times-bestselling historian comes the story of how the alphabet ordered our world. A Place for Everything is the first-ever history of alphabetization, from the Library of Alexandria to Wikipedia. The story of alphabetical order has been shaped by some of history's most compelling characters, such as industrious and enthusiastic early adopter Samuel Pepys and dedicated alphabet champion Denis Diderot. But though even George Washington was a proponent, many others stuck to older forms of classification -- Yale listed its students by their family's social status until 1886. And yet, while the order of the alphabet now rules -- libraries, phone books, reference books, even the order of entry for the teams at the Olympic Games -- it has remained curiously invisible. With abundant inquisitiveness and wry humor, historian Judith Flanders traces the triumph of alphabetical order and offers a compendium of Western knowledge, from A to Z. A Times (UK) Best Book of 2020
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Black Dog Pub Limited
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Design
ISBN : 1907317090
"A playful take on the alphabets relationship with art, design, typography, children's books, learning aides, commercial signage, contemporary culture and everything and anything in between"--Page 4 of cover.
Author : Charles V. Kraitsir
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1846
Category : Alphabet
ISBN : UOM:39015006566593