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Edson, Laurie – Visible Language, 1985
Examines ways in which visible language works with or against an accompanying image to produce desired effects on a reader or spectator and investigates the role that fiction and myth play in life, using a book cover and comic strip illustrations as examples. (DF)
Descriptors: Fiction, Imagery, Mythology, Reader Text Relationship
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Baudin, Fernand – Visible Language, 1984
Argues for the analyzing, studying, and describing of text pages as configurations of columns and lines and as constallations of alphabets. (FL)
Descriptors: Editing, Handwriting, Layout (Publications), Learning Theories
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Unger, J. Marshall – Visible Language, 1984
Describes the fundamentals of Japanese braille and outlines the spacing rules now in general use. Points out the relevance of Japanese braille for the computer treatment of the Japanese language. (FL)
Descriptors: Braille, Computers, Design Requirements, Japanese
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Backhouse, A. E. – Visible Language, 1984
Describes some of the major structural features of the modern Japanese written language as they are manifested at the level of graphology. (FL)
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Japanese, Language Research, Orthographic Symbols
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Seeley, 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
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Twine, 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
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Unger, J. Marshall – Visible Language, 1984
Examines the linguistic and technical factors that are responsible for the intractability of the computer input problem caused by Japanese orthography and the social factors that lend it a sense of urgency. (FL)
Descriptors: Communication Problems, Computers, Japanese, Language Research
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Benson, Philippa Jane – Visible Language, 1991
Reviews studies on cross-orthographic Stroop interference tests. Critiques one of the first cross-orthographic Stroop studies to describe how such studies have been used to explore cognitive mechanisms involved in reading. Reviews conceptual and methodological flaws in the research. (PRA)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Higher Education, Language Acquisition, Language Research
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Pastore, Richard E. – Visible Language, 1978
Examines the perception of components of written and spoken codes of human communication from a broad perspective in an attempt to identify possible similarities. (GT)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Communication (Thought Transfer), Language Research, Literature Reviews