Diacritics
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A brief overview on the history of orthographic accents in French and a graphemic analysis of their current status.
Modern historians assert that the earliest manuscripts of the Qurʾān were written in an Arabic scriptio defectiva, devoid of orthographic aids such as consonantal diacritics and vowel markers. In fact, the earliest extant... more
Informal electronic communication respect consistently the principles of conciseness, clarity, simplicity. Therefore, the orthography of this sort of communication is simplified: there is no semicolon or dashes, the period and comma are... more
... States: a destabilization that extends to the system of interpretation, the axiomatic, logic, rhetoric, concepts ... media have remained steadily active in this field, and the literature on 9/11 as a US ... 10 Even Al Qaeda, in... more
The aim of this dissertation is to make an analysis of the typographic characteristics of Brazilian indigenous languages as they appear on the printed page, with a specific focus on the orthographies established with the use of the Latin... more
To most people Svetlana Boym was known as a writer: a prolific writer of books marked by originality, insight, and irreverence for intellectual pieties, no matter how fashionable. The media artist side of her presented in this section was... more
... Ibn Habib cast al-Andalus as dangerous because of its positioning in the hinterlands, while the writer of the Akhbar majmu 'a described it ... developed since its treat ment by historians such as Bishko, Robert I. Burns, and... more
Persian-Hebrew texts are written in Hebrew orthography. Their records go back to the period before The Essential Books about Drugs’ Nature, the first Persian text in Arabic orthography by Abu Mansour Mowaffaq Herawi which was inscribed by... more
... not unlike Woolf's own androgynous Shakespeare, expresses femininity, while his sister is looking at language from her "foreign land." Thus, if we judge by Kristeva's evaluation, reading Woolf ... What is at stake... more
... [but that which] gives to the production of the ghost or of the ideological ... Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1989. 329-38. _____ . Deconstruction in a Nutshell: A Conversation with Jacques Derrida. Ed. and commentary John D. Caputo. New... more
This research employed entropy based algorithm to identify stopwords candidate for Yoruba Language texts. Two sets of corpus of 756,039 Yoruba words were used; the diacritized and its undiacritized versions. All words whose entropy is... more
This study employs a conjunctive, interdisciplinary approach to investigate the principles governing Maya hieroglyphic writing of the Classic Period (ca. A.D. 250-900). Linguistic, epigraphic, and ethnohistoric data are considered in the... more
Atti del convegno della Société Rencesvals (Ginevra, 2009)
Riesame e studio di alcuni segni diacritici presenti nel ms. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Digby 23 tra cui gli accenti e le abbreviazioni per sillaba con r.
Riesame e studio di alcuni segni diacritici presenti nel ms. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Digby 23 tra cui gli accenti e le abbreviazioni per sillaba con r.
IMAGINES SPIRITUS (ASPER ET LENI). A Meridian voice that sounds from within the aspiration-space of rendered colours Atemwende Zenith Boil Exhalations of the Earth A Saving Grace Subject to... more
If a stone cannot be read, in the conventional sense, what do we see on, or in, or through stones? And what can we do with them? This essay begins in media res, with reading, writing, and things -- specifically stones – and considers them... more
There are certain sounds in the Greek-Cypriot dialect (henceforth GCD) that cannot be represented by characters from the Greek alphabet in its written form. Contradicting ideologies have made it impossible for Cypriots to settle on an... more
Chiasmi International, Volume 15 (2013)
In her Thinking in Time: An Introduction to Henri Bergson Suzanne Guerlac reminds her readers that the metaphysician has indeed been the subject of many hatreds, as the Berg sonist Gilles Deleuze once noted. But from this taut... more