Alphabet Effect — Some communication theorists (notably those associated with the Toronto School of Communications , such as Marshall McLuhan, Harold Innis, Walter Ong and more recently Robert K. Logan) have advanced hypotheses to the effect that phonetic writing… … Wikipedia
Alphabet — [ William Caslon, letter founder; from the 1728 Cyclopaedia .] An alphabet is a standardized set of letters mdash basic written symbolsmdash each of which roughly represents a phoneme, a spoken language, either as it exists now or as it was in… … Wikipedia
Abstract family of languages — An abstract family of languages is a grouping of formal languages such that the membership of a language in a given family is proven by its sharing of specific characteristics with the languages already known to be of that family. A family must… … Wikipedia
International Phonetic Alphabet — Not to be confused with NATO phonetic alphabet. IPA redirects here. For other uses, see IPA (disambiguation). For usage of IPA in Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:IPA or Wikipedia:IPA/Introduction International Phonetic Alphabet … Wikipedia
From A to Z, in the Chocolate Alphabet — a work by Harlan Ellison, is a collection of 26 extremely short stories on abstract and basically unrelated topics, displaying various aspects of Ellison’s well known preoccupations with morality, mythology, the trivia of history, and humor.The … Wikipedia
Color alphabet — is a one to one mapping of a subset of discrete colors to a standardized set of signs (alphabet or graphemes) that allows one to construct meaning out of color directly and unambiguously using an existing system of writing.The choice of colors… … Wikipedia
automata theory — Body of physical and logical principles underlying the operation of any electromechanical device (an automaton) that converts information input in one form into another, or into some action, according to an algorithm. Norbert Wiener and Alan M.… … Universalium
SignWriting — Infobox Writing system name=Signwriting type=Iconic featural script languages=American Sign Language, Danish Sign Language, other sign languages time=1974 present sample=signwriting.png imagesize=64 iso15924=Sgnw SignWriting is a system of… … Wikipedia
Metamagical Themas — is a collection of eclectic articles written for Scientific American during the early 1980s by Douglas Hofstadter, and published together as a book in 1985 by Basic Books (ISBN 0 465 04566 9). The subject matter of the articles is loosely woven… … Wikipedia
language — /lang gwij/, n. 1. a body of words and the systems for their use common to a people who are of the same community or nation, the same geographical area, or the same cultural tradition: the two languages of Belgium; a Bantu language; the French… … Universalium
literature — /lit euhr euh cheuhr, choor , li treuh /, n. 1. writings in which expression and form, in connection with ideas of permanent and universal interest, are characteristic or essential features, as poetry, novels, history, biography, and essays. 2.… … Universalium