The alphabet effect is a group of hypotheses in communication theory arguing that phonetic writing, and alphabetic scripts in particular, have served to promote and encourage the cognitive skills of abstraction, analysis, coding, decoding, and classification. Promoters of these hypotheses are associated with the Toronto School of Communication, such as Marshall McLuhan, Harold Innis, Walter Ong, Vilém Flusser and more recently Robert K. Logan; the term "alphabet effect" comes from Logan's 1986 work (see the bibliography below which references the 2004 second edition).
The alphabeteffect is a group of hypotheses in communication theory arguing that phonetic writing, and alphabetic scripts in particular, have served...
The history of the alphabet goes back to the consonantal writing system used to write Semitic languages in the Levant during the 2nd millennium BCE. Nearly...
the uncommon Unicode characters in this article correctly. The Avestan alphabet (Middle Persian: transliteration: dyn' dpywryh, transcription: dēn dēbīrē...
from the first syllable of the lines of Ut queant laxis, a Latin hymn. Alphabeteffect History of the alphabet Logogram Just So Stories, Rudyard Kipling...
Allied military phonetic spelling alphabets prescribed the words that are used to represent each letter of the alphabet, when spelling other words out loud...
other symbols instead of phonetic symbols. The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is an alphabetic system of phonetic notation based primarily on the...
Latin alphabet, derived from a form of the Greek alphabet which was in use in the ancient Greek city of Cumae in Magna Graecia. The Greek alphabet was altered...
Shavian characters. The Shavian alphabet (/ˈʃeɪviən/ SHAY-vee-ən; also known as the Shaw alphabet) is a constructed alphabet conceived as a way to provide...
The Vietnamese alphabet (Vietnamese: chữ Quốc ngữ, lit. 'script of the National language', IPA: [t͡ɕɨ˦ˀ˥ kuək̚˧˦ ŋɨ˦ˀ˥]) is the modern writing script for...
The ISO basic Latin alphabet is an international standard (beginning with ISO/IEC 646) for a Latin-script alphabet that consists of two sets (uppercase...
September 2003. Retrieved 15 November 2008. Logan, Robert K. (1986). The AlphabetEffect. New York: William Morrow and Company. p. 22. ISBN 978-0-312-00993-9...
based on the position of the characters in the conventional ordering of an alphabet. It is one of the methods of collation. In mathematics, a lexicographical...
November 1928, and came into effect on that day. With the approval of this law, the validity of the Ottoman Turkish alphabet, which was based on Arabic...
first letter and the first vowel letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, and others worldwide. Its name in English is a (pronounced...
script (/ˌɡlæɡəˈlɪtɪk/, ⰃⰎⰀⰃⰑⰎⰉⰜⰀ, glagolitsa) is the oldest known Slavic alphabet. It is generally agreed that it was created in the 9th century for the...
the alphabet stresses the sense of sight, which in turn causes us to think in linear, objective terms. The medium of the alphabet thus has the effect of...
Chinese. In official documents, it is referred to as the Chinese Phonetic Alphabet. It is the official system used in China, Singapore, Taiwan, and by the...
This article contains Deseret alphabet characters. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Deseret...
Dobrujan Tatar alphabet is the writing system of Dobrujan Tatar. Before 1956 only Perso-Arabic script was used and after 1956, Latin alphabet was also adopted...
The English Phonotypic Alphabet is a phonetic alphabet developed by Sir Isaac Pitman and Alexander John Ellis originally as an English language spelling...
10, 2009. Retrieved January 12, 2009. Logan, Robert K. (1986). The AlphabetEffect. New York: William Morrow and Company. p. 22. ISBN 978-0-312-00993-9...
ISBN 978-1-74066-533-9. OCLC 271597716. Grosswiler, Paul (2004). "Dispelling the AlphabetEffect". Canadian Journal of Communication. 29 (2): 145–158. doi:10.22230/cjc...
the Read Alphabet and Second Shaw) is an alphabet which is intended as a replacement for traditional English orthography with the Latin alphabet. It is...
The Walloon language has employed various alphabets over its history, most notably the Feller system (sistinme Feller) and Unified Walloon (rifondou walon...
article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the...
and many punctuation characters, but no lowercase. This is the Base64 alphabet defined in RFC 4648 §4 . See also § Variants summary table. The example...
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