Writing Signs

Author : Roy Harris
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415100885
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Signs of Writing written by Roy Harris and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By treating writing as an independent mode of communication, based on the use of spatial relations to connect events separated in time, the author shows how other forms of writing obey the same principles.In Signs of Writing Roy Harris re-examines basic questions about writing that have long been obscured by the traditional assumption that writing is merely a visual substitute for speech.By treating writing as an independent mode of communication, based on the use of spatial relations to connect events separated in time, the author shows how musical, mathematical and other forms of writing obey the same principles as verbal writing. These principles, he argues, apply to texts of all kinds: a sonnet, a symphonic score, a signature on a cheque and a supermarket label. Moreover, they apply throughout the history of writing, from hieroglyphics to hypertext.This is the first book to provide a new general theory of writing in over forty years. Signs of Writing will be essential reading for anyone interested in language and communication.

Author : Irene A. Bierman
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520208021
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Writing Signs written by Irene A. Bierman and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1998-12-16 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bierman considers how the Fatimid rulers used public writing to present their own ideology to different members of society in Cairo in the 10th to 12th centuries and the ways in which it was received.

Author : Irene A. Bierman
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520918788
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Writing Signs written by Irene A. Bierman and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1998-12-16 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Irene Bierman explores the complex relationship between alphabet and language as well as the ways the two elements are socially defined by time and place. She focuses her exploration on the Eastern Mediterranean in the sixth through twelfth centuries, notably Cairo's Fatimid dynasty of 969-1171. Examining the inscriptions on Fatimid architecture and textiles, Bierman offers insight into all elements of that society, from religion to the economy, and the enormous changes the dynasty underwent during that period. Bierman addresses fundamental issues of what buildings mean, how inscriptions affect that meaning, and the role of written messages and the ceremonies into which they are incorporated in service of propagandist goals. Her method and conclusions provide a pioneering model for studying public writing in other societies and offer powerful evidence to show that writing is a highly charged and deeply embedded social practice.

Author : John Bodel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108840612
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hidden Language of Graphic Signs written by John Bodel and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-19 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book zeroes in on hidden writing and alternative systems of graphic notation, exploring writings that deflect attention from language.

Author : Wayne Tanswell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780956246394
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Essential Guide to Hand Painted Signs written by Wayne Tanswell and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Elizabeth Hill Boone
Publisher : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection
ISBN 13 : 9780884023685
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Their Way of Writing written by Elizabeth Hill Boone and published by Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on papers presented at the Pre-Columbian Studies Symposium Scripts, Signs, and Notational Systems in Pre-Columbian America held at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington, D.C., on October 11-12, 2008. The fifteen contributors to Their Way of Writing: Scripts, Signs, and Pictographies in Pre-Columbian America consider substantive and theoretical issues concerning writing and signing systems in the ancient Americas. They present the latest thinking about these graphic and tactile systems of communication. Their variety of perspectives and their advances in decipherment and understanding constitute a major contribution not only to our understanding of Pre-Columbian and indigenous American cultures but also to our comparative and global understanding of writing and literacy.

Author : Karen Fang
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813928826
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Romantic Writing and the Empire of Signs written by Karen Fang and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2010-02-02 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nineteenth-century periodicals frequently compared themselves to the imperial powers then dissecting the globe, and this interest in imperialism can be seen in the exotic motifs that surfaced in works by such late Romantic authors as John Keats, Charles Lamb, James Hogg, Letitia Landon, and Lord Byron. Karen Fang explores the collaboration of these authors with periodical magazines to show how an interdependent relationship between these visual themes and rhetorical style enabled these authors to model their writing on the imperial project. Fang argues that in the decades after Waterloo late Romantic authors used imperial culture to capitalize on the contemporary explosion of periodical magazines. This proliferation of "post-Napoleonic" writing—often referencing exotic locales—both revises longstanding notions about literary orientalism and reveals a remarkable synthesis of Romantic idealism with contemporary cultural materialism that heretofore has not been explored. Indeed, in interlocking case studies that span the reach of British conquest, ranging from Greece, China, and Egypt to Italy and Tahiti, Fang challenges a major convention of periodical publication. While periodicals are usually thought to be defined by time, this account of the geographic attention exerted by late Romantic authors shows them to be equally concerned with space. With its exploration of magazines and imperialism as a context for Romantic writing, culture, and aesthetics, this book will appeal not only to scholars of book history and reading cultures but also to those of nineteenth-century British writing and history.

Author : John Waldmeir
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004382542
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In-Between Identities: Signs of Islam in Contemporary American Writing written by John Waldmeir and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-09-11 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using Islamic tradition as a resource, the poets, novelists, playwright, filmmaker, and illustrator in this study discover signs of God’s creative actions amid the tensions of contemporary Muslim American identity.

Author : Paul Nooncree Hasluck
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Write Signs, Tickets, and Posters written by Paul Nooncree Hasluck and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Writer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ticket-writing and Sign-painting written by Writer and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: