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Chapter 12: Reading and Writing. Ingrish. Ingrish. Engrish. Ingrish. Important term. Petroglyphs – stone carving. Important term. Pictograms – symbols representing object or concept. Important term. Ideogram – similar to pictogram though pictogram is more literal. Important term.
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Important term • Petroglyphs – stone carving
Important term • Pictograms – symbols representing object or concept
Important term • Ideogram – similar to pictogram though pictogram is more literal
Important term • Cuneifrom – wedge shaped (Summerians in Mesopotamia (Iraq) 4000 BC
Important term • Logographic – word writing
Important term • Hieroglyphics - (sacred carvings) • Rosetta stone – hieroglyphics, Demotic, classical Greek
Important Term • Syllabic writing – symbols representing syllable sounds • Japanese – also uses Kanji (Chinese characters) • Not efficient for English • English has too many inflections
Important terms • Alphabetic writing • Phoneme • Phonemic awareness
Korean and Chinese and Twi • Korean uses place of articulation in their alphabetic system • Chinese uses characters • Maintained due to heritage • Twi – spoken in Ghana, uses some IPA symbols
Literacy • Drawback of literacy? • Biggest obstacles to literacy in our society? • Schools affect on literacy?
Spelling • Printing press – codified spelling • Sound changes – page 524-525