10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ACROPHONY»
Discover the use of
acrophony in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
acrophony and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Enigmatic Netherworld Books of the Solar-Osirian Unity: ...
Acrophony of the sort Drioton espoused remains a shaky and unproven
hypothesis; even in the examples from the temple of Esna for which Sauneron
believed only acrophony could provide an explanation, the principle of
cryptographic ...
John Coleman Darnell, 2004
2
HIEROGLYPHS OF THE PHAISTOS DISC: history and full text ...
My note: In accordance with the method of pictographic letter-syllabic acrophony:
- at first "it is set the estimated the pictographic meaning of sign”1, such as a sign
is graphically identified as a "man" (this identification as the reader understood, ...
3
The Idea of Writing: Play and Complexity
31 The process of phonological reduction or acrophony, the process through
which both logographic and syllabic signs came into existence, is in many cases
difficult to reconstruct. Many signs seem to have developed through this process
of ...
Alexander J. de Voogt, Irving L. Finkel, 2010
4
Gobbledygook: A Dictionary That's 2/3 Accurate, 1/3 Nonsense ...
nalophile,. acrophony,. dreddour. nalophile (NAIL-uh-file) (noun): One who
studies, or is simply intrigued by dry creekbeds, dry gullies, dry lakes, etc.
acrophony (uh-KRAHF-uh-nee) (noun): An alphabet term referring to the naming
of a letter ...
5
Language History, Language Change, and Language ...
Ultimately the most powerful and, at the same time, most daring method was the
principle of acrophony and similar arbitrary phonetic reductions. Nowadays, the
related process of acronymy is used mainly as a means of abbreviation,
generally ...
Hans Henrich Hock, Brian D. Joseph, 2009
6
Proto-Canaanite Alphabet: Alphabet,
Acrophony, Egyptian ...
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Lambert M. Surhone, Miriam T. Timpledon, Susan F. Marseken, 2010
7
Bloomsbury Companion to Phonetics
Acrophony may have played a significant role in the spread of writing in the
ancient Near East (Gardiner, 1916). In acrophony a logogram becomes an
alphabetic letter when it is used to represent the first sound of the word instead of
the whole ...
Mark J. Jones, Rachael-Anne Knight, 2013
He has a choice of ready-made signs, and he has the principle of acrophony to
draw on. He borrows the Egyptian signs, and matches them with their names in
Semitic. The Egyptian 'N for net (water/amwa)' becomes 'M for mem (the Semitic ...
9
The First Writing: Script Invention as History and Process
Consider, for example, the Luwian hieroglyphs, where "the syllabic values are
derived by acrophony, i.e. by taking the first syllable(s) of the word represented
by a logogram. For Fig. 2.1 1 Acrophonic derivations of certain members of the.
10
Sound and Communication: An Aesthetic Cultural History of ...
If we analyze the forms of such sacred formulas, we find that there are three
different ways of coding them: 1) Coding using the principle of acrophony. For
example, SRIM is simply the goddess's name "Sri" (i.e. the Indian Fortuna), to
which the ...
