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McKee, Stuart – Visible Language, 2010
Western historians working in the first half of the twentieth century established a scheme for writing design history that continues to influence the global histories of today. The historians Douglas McMurtrie, Lucien Febvre, Henri-Jean Martin and Lawrence Wroth believed that the modern history of visual communication began with the advent and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Modern History, Historiography, Cultural Differences
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DeKay, Michael L.; Freyd, Jennifer J. – Visible Language, 1991
Investigates the effect of drawing method on the subsequent discriminability of hand-drawn characters. Finds that members of character pairs drawn using dissimilar stroke directions became more differentiated; subjects were better able to distinguish between members of differentiated character pairs; and subjects were better at distinguishing…
Descriptors: Freehand Drawing, Handwriting, Higher Education, Writing Research
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Shimron, Joseph; Navon, David – Visible Language, 1980
English and Hebrew native speakers read texts mutilated by removing strips at the top or bottom of lines. Reading English texts was impaired more by mutilating the top, but the reverse was found for Hebrew texts, due to the different ways information is distributed along the vertical axis of Roman and Hebrew letters. (Author/GT)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, English, Hebrew, Letters (Alphabet)
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Brown, R. A. – Visible Language, 1991
Examines societies in which varieties and degrees of literacy are possible or ordinary, such as Japan and Korea. Finds that these societies have separate but functionally interrelated writing systems, used for communicatively disparate purposes, differential mastery of which, consequently, has social and economic repercussions. Finds that…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Cognitive Processes, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
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Storkerson, Peter – Visible Language, 1992
Reconsiders the usual typologies of diagram presentations, questioning accepted taxonomies. Examines diagrammatic structures, revealing some hardened categories. Suggests that new discoveries can be made if questions are raised about how information is framed. (SR)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Communication Research, Diagrams, Graphic Arts
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Weber, Rose-Marie – Visible Language, 1986
Examines colloquial contractions (spelling variants such as "kinda" and "hafta") against a background of other variations in the English writing system with respect to their morphological identity, characteristic spelling patterns, and significance in print. Divides variants into those that are independent of speech variation…
Descriptors: Language Research, Language Variation, North American English, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence
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Bear, Donald R. – Visible Language, 1991
Examines the relationship between stages of orthographic development and writing fluency. Finds that the graphemic output lexicon of beginning readers and writers is not sufficiently detailed to allow a fluent output. (PRA)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Beginning Writing, Elementary Education, Language Acquisition
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Smith, Janet S.; Schmidt, David L. – Visible Language, 1996
Tests widely-held associations among script types, genres, writers, and target readers via statistical analysis in popular Japanese fiction. Subjects texts to lexical analysis to see whether choice of vocabulary can account for variability in script selection. Finds that Japanese writers fashion their script type choices to specific contexts, as…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Context Effect, Fiction, Higher Education
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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
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Kerr, Stephen T. – Visible Language, 1986
Discusses the types of problems that arise when text is presented in electronic form: (1) surface design, which involves typography, layout, graphics and illustrations, and the quality of language; and (2) interface design, which is manifested on the levels of immediate surface of the text, internal structure, and external structure. (SKC)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Graphics, Computer Uses in Education, Electronic Publishing