Alphabets & Writing Systems

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781074302009Author Lingua ProfessionaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams)...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997222302Author Steve ThenellFormat PaperbackPage Count 334Imprint Millet Rain PublishingPublisher Millet Rain PublishingWeight(grams) 581gDimensions(mm)...

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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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993428678Author Yvonne C MbanefoFormat PaperbackPage Count 44Imprint Learn Igbo NowPublisher Learn Igbo NowWeight(grams) 127gDimensions(mm) 280mm * 216mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615831336Author Mable Brothers MullenFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Speaklife PublishingPublisher Speaklife PublishingWeight(grams) 109g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996906678Author Rich AmeninhatFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint ICUPublisher ICUWeight(grams) 230g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780990543589Author Michael SalingerFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Red Giant BooksPublisher Red Giant BooksWeight(grams) 100gDimensions(mm) 234mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988528970Author J NewmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Loconeal SelectPublisher Loconeal SelectWeight(grams) 86g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780991104840Author S KalyanaramanFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint Sarasvati Research CenterPublisher Sarasvati Research CenterWeight(grams)...

Writing does not begin and end with the encoding of an idea into a group of symbols. It is practised by people who have learnt its principles and acquired the tools and skills for doing it, in a particular context that affects what they do and how they...

Contact Linguistics is a critical investigation of what happens to the grammars of languages when bilingual speakers use both their languages in the same clause. It consolidates earlier insights and presents the new theoretical and empirical work of a...

Language which develops 'against all the odds' is very precious. Words were not enough for Tom; it was signs that made sense of a world silenced by meningitis. Confidence came via joyful and positive steps to communication from babyhood; a brush with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781901383409Author Robert M. KerrFormat HardbackPage Count 520Imprint ArchetypePublisher ArchetypeWeight(grams) 905g

This volume gathers papers from the first conference ever to be held on the disappearance of writing systems, in Oxford in March 2004. While the invention and decipherment of writing systems have long been focuses of research, their eclipse or...

This volume gathers papers from the first conference ever to be held on the disappearance of writing systems, in Oxford in March 2004. While the invention and decipherment of writing systems have long been focuses of research, their eclipse or...

This book presents the first ever comprehensive overview of national laws recognising sign languages, the impacts they have and the advocacy campaigns which led to their creation. It comprises 18 studies from communities across Europe, the US, South...

The K-Effect shows how the roman alphabet has functioned as a standardizing global model for modern print culture. Investigating the history and ongoing effects of romanization, Christopher GoGwilt reads modernism in a global and comparative perspective,...

The K-Effect shows how the roman alphabet has functioned as a standardizing global model for modern print culture. Investigating the history and ongoing effects of romanization, Christopher GoGwilt reads modernism in a global and comparative perspective,...

Inquiry into signed languages has added to what is known about structural variation and language, language learning, and cognitive processing of language. However, comparatively little research has focused on communication disorders in signed language...

When Columbus arrived in the Americas there were, it is believed, as many as 2,000 distinct, mutually unintelligible tongues spoken in the western hemisphere, encompassing the entire area from the Arctic Circle to Tierra del Fuego. This astonishing fact...

When Columbus arrived in the Americas there were, it is believed, as many as 2,000 distinct, mutually unintelligible tongues spoken in the western hemisphere, encompassing the entire area from the Arctic Circle to Tierra del Fuego. This astonishing fact...

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Introduces readers to the concept of opposites through the pairing of wet and dry. Simple text, straightforward photos, and a photo glossary make this title the perfect primer on a common pair of opposites.Book InformationISBN 9781641854108Author...

Introduces readers to the concept of opposites through the pairing of near and far. Simple text, straightforward photos, and a photo glossary make this title the perfect primer on a common pair of opposites.Book InformationISBN 9781641854085Author...

Introduces readers to the concept of opposites through the pairing of near and far. Simple text, straightforward photos, and a photo glossary make this title the perfect primer on a common pair of opposites.Book InformationISBN 9781641853507Author...

Introduces readers to the concept of opposites through the pairing of wet and dry. Simple text, straightforward photos, and a photo glossary make this title the perfect primer on a common pair of opposites.Book InformationISBN 9781641853521Author...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062228864Author Margalit FoxFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Ecco PressPublisher Ecco PressWeight(grams) 295g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781727425284Author Nina NoositaFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781487807702Author Hui XuFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Royal Collins Publishing CompanyPublisher Royal Collins Publishing CompanyWeight(grams) 331g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780190925482Author William R LebenFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Oxford University Press, USAPublisher Oxford University Press, USA

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780884023685Author Elizabeth Hill BooneFormat HardbackPage Count 422Imprint Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & CollectionPublisher Dumbarton Oaks Research...

This book examines the materiality of writing. It adopts a multimodal approach to argue that writing as we know it is only a small part of the myriad gestures we make, practices we engage in, and media we use in the process of trace-making. Taking a...

In this book, Philip Zhakevich examines the technology of writing as it existed in the southern Levant during the Iron Age II period, after the alphabetic writing system had fully taken root in the region. Using the Hebrew Bible as its corpus and...

The field of text technologies is a capacious analytical framework that focuses on all textual records throughout human history, from the earliest periods of traceable communication-perhaps as early as 60,000 BCE-to the present day. At its core, it...

Inquiry into signed languages has added to what is known about structural variation and language, language learning, and cognitive processing of language. However, comparatively little research has focused on communication disorders in signed language...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781803770826Author haiyan wuFormat PaperbackImprint Billson International LtdPublisher Billson International Ltd

This book provides a comprehensive cross-linguistic account of 98 typologically diverse minority languages in Southern China. A number of important parameters are analyzed based on rich case studies ranging from the Tibeto-Burman languages,...

A global exploration of the many writing systems that are on the verge of vanishing, and the stories and cultures they carry with them.If something is important, we write it down. Yet 85% of the world's writing systems are on the verge of vanishing - not...