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\"From an Astronaut who's afraid of heights, to a Bridge that ends up burned between friends, to a Cup stuck in a cupboard and longing for freedom, this series of interconnected stories and characters explores the alphabet\"-- Provided by publisher.

In a world of rapid technological advancements, it can be easy to forget that writing is the originalInformation Technology, created to transcend the limitations of human memory and to defy time and space. The Writing Revolutionpicks apart the development of this communication tool to show how it has conquered the world.Explores how writing has liberated the world, making possible everything from complex bureaucracy, literature, and science, to instruction manuals and love lettersDraws on an engaging range of examples, from the first cuneiform clay tablet, Egyptian hieroglyphs, and Japanese syllabaries, to the printing press and the text messagingWeaves together ideas from a number of fields, including history, cultural studies and archaeology, as well as linguistics and literature, to create an interdisciplinary volumeTraces the origins of each of the world’s major written traditions, along with their applications, adaptations, and cultural influences

Readers will be mesmerized by these surreal and gorgeously rendered alphabet letters, cleverly shaped from flora, fauna, and more.

The Routledge Handbook of Scripts and Alphabets is a unique reference to the main scripts and alphabets of the world. The Handbook presents over 60 alphabets covering an enormous scope of languages; from Amharic and Chinese to Thai and Cree. Full script tables are given for every language and each entry is accompanied by a detailed overview of its historical and linguistic context. New to this second edition: enhanced introduction discussing the basic principles and strategies utilized by world writing systems expanded to include more writing systems improved presentation of non-Roman scripts. organised into ancient, contemporary and autochthonous writing systems many new entries on fascinating and lesser-known writing systems This handy resource is the ideal reference for all students and scholars of language and linguistics. It has been brought to our attention that in some of the copies of the book there is an alignment error in the tables for Cyrillic Scripts (pages 88-90) and Roman Scripts (pages 140-44). Please contact us at Isabelle.Cheng@tandf.co.uk to receive replacement copies of the corrected tables, free of charge. Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience caused. Foreword Introduction. List of Abbreviations. Chart of Phonetic Symbols. Alphabetical Entries on Script. Bibliography. Christopher Moseley is a linguist and lecturer at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London. He is co-editor (with Prof. R.E.Asher) of the Atlas of the World’s Languages (Routledge, 2007) and general editor of the UNESCO Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger (2010). George L. Campbell worked for the BBC World Service and was a polyglot linguist and translator. \" The Handbook of Scripts and Alphabets is a well presented and fascinating account of the world's writing systems...The enticing information found throughout the book would undoubtedly spark the curiosity of any reader, and it is a suitable starting point for anyone interested in the world's scripts.\" - Philippa M. Steele, Linguist List

\"Alliterative and rhyming words of wisdom surrounded by all new art fill this ... alphabet book by Dallas Clayton ... [in which] each spread offers a rhythmic phrase and an abundance of artwork illustrating the featured letter. The message of dreaming big and living life to its fullest permeates every page, inviting readers to 'learn some new letters that you can use to make magical words and share big ideas'\"-- From publisher's Web site.

In Language and Learning in the Digital Age, linguist James Paul Gee and educator Elisabeth Hayes deal with the forces unleashed by today’s digital media, forces that are transforming language and learning for good and ill. They argue that the role of oral language is almost always entirely misunderstood in debates about digital media. Like the earlier inventions of writing and print, digital media actually power up or enhance the powers of oral language. Gee and Hayes deal, as well, with current digital transformations of language and literacy in the context of a growing crisis in traditional schooling in developed countries. With the advent of new forms of digital media, children are increasingly drawn towards video games, social media, and alternative ways of learning. Gee and Hayes explore the way in which these alternative methods of learning can be a force for a paradigm change in schooling. This is an engaging, accessible read both for undergraduate and graduate students and for scholars in language, linguistics, education, media and communication studies.

\"The NATO phonetic alphabet, or more accurately, the International Radiotelephany Spelling Alphabet is used by various emergency services ...as a way to communicate clearly and precisely in urgent situations.\"

The congruity effect is a highly replicated feature of comparative judgments, and has been recently found in memory judgments of relative temporal order. Specifically, asking \"Which came earlier?\" versus \"Which came later?\" facilitates response times and sometimes error rates on judgments toward the beginning or end of the list, respectively. This suggests memory judgments of relative temporal order may be part of a broader class of comparative judgments. If so, the same congruity effect should also be found with the English alphabet, despite the alphabet being a longer, semantic-memory list, with forward directional encoding. A large-sample study (N = 340) produced a clear congruity effect in response time and even error rate (when controlled for response time). The large number of serial positions afforded by the alphabet enabled us to test a repertoire of mathematical models instantiating four distinct mechanisms of the congruity effect, against the empirical serial-position effects. The best-performing model assumed a response bias toward a discrete set of letters conceived of as \"early\" versus \"late,\" respectively, an account that had previously been ruled out for typical comparative-judgment paradigms. In contrast, models implementing congruity effect mechanisms supported for conventional comparative judgment paradigms (based on reference-point theory or positional discriminability) produced quantitatively poorer fits, with more curvilinear serial-position effects that deviated from the data. The congruity effect thus extends to long, highly directional semantic-memory lists. However, qualitatively different serial-position effects across models suggest that, despite the superficial similarity, there are probably several quite different mechanisms that produce congruity effects, which may, in turn, depend on specific task characteristics. L'effet de congruence est une caractéristique hautement répliquée dans les jugements comparatifs, et a récemment été trouvé dans les jugements de mémoire de l'ordre temporel relatif. Plus précisément, la question « Qu'est-ce qui apparaît avant? » par opposition à « Qu'est-ce qui apparaît après? » facilite les temps de réponse et parfois les taux d'erreur sur les jugements vers le début ou la fin de la liste, respectivement. Cela suggère que les jugements de mémoire d'ordre temporel relatif peuvent faire partie d'une classe plus large de jugements comparatifs. Si c'est le cas, le même effet de congruence devrait également être trouvé avec l'alphabet anglais, bien que l'alphabet soit une liste sémantique-mémoire plus longue, avec un encodage directionnel vers l'avant. Une étude sur un grand échantillon (N = 340) a permis de constater un effet de congruence évident sur le temps de réponse et même sur le taux d'erreur (après contrôle du temps de réponse). Le grand nombre de positions en série offertes par l'alphabet nous a permis de tester un répertoire de modèles mathématiques instanciant quatre mécanismes distincts de l'effet de congruence, contre les effets empiriques des positions en série. Le modèle le plus performant supposait un biais de réponse en faveur d'un ensemble discret de lettres conçues comme apparaissant « avant » par opposition à « après », respectivement, un concept qui avait été précédemment exclu pour les paradigmes de jugement comparatif typiques. En revanche, les modèles mettant en œuvre des mécanismes d'effet de congruence soutenus pour les paradigmes de jugement comparatif conventionnels (basés sur la théorie du point de référence ou la discriminabilité positionnelle) ont produit des ajustements quantitativement moins bons, avec des effets de positions en série plus curvilignes qui s'écartaient des données. L'effet de congruence s'étend donc aux listes de mémoire sémantique longues et hautement directionnelles. Cependant, les effets de positions en série qualitativement différents entre les modèles suggèrent que, malgré la similitude superficielle, il existe probablement plusieurs mécanismes très différents qui produisent des effets de congruence, qui peuvent, à leur tour, dépendre des caractéristiques spécifiques de la tâche. Public Significance Statement We found that people are faster judging alphabetical order of letter-pairs, depending on whether they are asked which comes earlier or which comes later. The best-fitting mathematical model explained this \"congruity effect\" as people having a positive bias toward letters that they think of as early in the early instruction, and late in the late instruction. This differs from causes of congruity effects in other judgments of order (animal size, random lists). Explaining congruity effects is important for understanding many behaviors that demand precise order.

\"A is for airplane, B is for boat, and C is for cat! Get ready to learn your ABCs with this delightfully illustrated book full of animals, toys, vehicles, and more.\"--Page [4] cover.