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Peer reviewedSeeley, Chris – Visible Language, 1984
Summarizes changes in the Japanese script from 1900 onwards, emphasizing those made after World War II in an effort to simplify the script. (FL)
Descriptors: Intellectual History, Japanese, Language Research, Modern History
Peer reviewedTwine, Nanette – Visible Language, 1984
Examines how, under Western influence, punctuation was adopted in Japanese texts in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. (FL)
Descriptors: Intellectual History, Japanese, Language Research, Orthographic Symbols
Peer reviewedConnors, Robert J. – Written Communication, 1985
Examines the slow growth of a body of knowledge about how information can best be communicated without necessary reference to overt persuasion, from Henry Day's "Art of Rhetoric" through contemporary explanatory rhetoric. (FL)
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Educational Philosophy, Intellectual History, Oral Language
Peer reviewedMcLuhan, Marshall; Logan, R. K. – ETC: A Review of General Semantics, 1977
Traces the history of the alphabet; cites recent developments in the field of neurophysiology that tend to support the hypothesis that the alphabet produced a situation favorable for the development of logic, rational thought, and science. Also comments on the reemergence of the oral tradition. (GT)
Descriptors: Alphabets, Cerebral Dominance, Cognitive Processes, Communications
