Isbn: 9789048143443 - writing systems and cognition: perspectives from psychology, physiology, linguistics, and semiotics (neuropsychology and cognition, band 6) (4 Ergebnisse)

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Writing Systems and Cognition | Perspectives from Psychology, Physiology, Linguistics, and Semiotics | William C. Watt | Taschenbuch | xiv | Englisch | 2010 | Springer | EAN 9789048143443 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg, juergen[dot]hartmann[at]springer[dot]com | Anbieter: preigu.…

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - In this distinguished collection the deeper cognitive aspects of writing systems are for the first time added to the perceptual and physiological dimensions and brought into a coherent whole. The result is a multifaceted understanding of alphabets and other scripts in which none of the major factors that shape those systems, and thus distinctively reveal attributes of the human mind, are slighted. The systems through which language is realized on the page are compared in nature and complexity with those through which language is realized as sound, and are seen in their true perspective. Long the object of intensive inquiry, the process of change in phonological systems is now joined to the evolution of graphological systems, and new light is cast on the nature of the relevant human cognitive processes in their diversity and underlying unity. The authors, each eminently qualified in his or her field, are drawn from Europe, Asia, and North and South America.…