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Scholes, Robert James
About the author: Robert James Scholes is professor of speech and linguistics at the University of Florida. He received his doctorate in linguistics from Indiana University. He has researched and published extensively in language acquisition, psycholinguistics, and literacy.
1999 0-7734-7919-8The ideas in this book are based upon language, speech, and writing. Some of the topics are a brief survey of scripts, punctuation, words in speech and writing, and spoken and written languages. At the end of the book is a series of illustrations showing symbol language of the Lord’s Prayer, depicted in Chinese, Hieroglyphics, Sanskrit, Hebrew, Thai, Greek, Latin, Russian, gothic, German, and Anglo-Saxon.