LA 7

Question 1

complete writing system

Answer 1

allows you to record any and all thoughts and words, easily conveys abstract thoughts

Question 2

writing

Answer 2

graphic representation of a language

Question 3

partial writing system

Answer 3

limited in what it can convey, “picture writing systems” can’t depict abstract ideas

Question 4

phonetic sign

Answer 4

graphic mark that represents one or more of the sounds of a language

Question 5

semantic sign

Answer 5

graphic mark that represents a specific idea or meaning

Question 6

pictographic “writing”

Answer 6

uses pictures or images to represent things

Question 7

rebus writing

Answer 7

single picture to represent tow or more words that sound the same, a picture of the sun, represents sun/son

Question 8

logographic writing

Answer 8

graphic signs are used to represent words, or ideas associated with those words mean

Question 9

syllabic writing

Answer 9

uses graphic signs to represent individual syllables (think of stresses, cat=1 syllable)

Question 10

logosyllabic writing

Answer 10

signs can carry both semantic and phonetic information to help you decode what is written. chinese, japanese

Question 11

determinative

Answer 11

sign added to another sign to clarify meaning or create new words

Question 12

phonetic deteminatives

Answer 12

help to suggest related words that are pronounced differently

Question 13

semantic determinatives

Answer 13

help to separate different words that might be pronounced similarly

Question 14

alphabetic writing

Answer 14

uses graphic signs to represent individual consonants and vowels. English, Arabic, Hebrew

Question 15

grapheme

Answer 15

describe the smallest segment of speech that is represented in a a writing system

Question 16

lexeme

Answer 16

unit of writing that is surrounded by white space on a page. (frame)

Question 17

autonomous approach

Answer 17

assumes that reading and writing is different from speaking

Question 18

practice approach to literacy

Answer 18

approach suggests that literacy is a set of habitual behaviors or “practices” exercised in specific cultural contexts and often for specific reasons

Question 19

entexualization

Answer 19

the process of putting spoken words onto paper; the process of transforming spoken language into some form of written langauge

Question 20

literacy event

Answer 20

one or more reading acts involving one or pmore participants; any occasion when individuals attempt to read and/or write, also how is literacy incorporated into daily lives;
Heath and Piedmont

Question 21

logosyllabic writing

Answer 21

a system in which signs can carry both semantic and phonetic information

Question 22

syllabic writing

Answer 22

a system in which graphic signs represent individual syllables

Question 23

nonverbal communication

Answer 23

the process of transmitting messages without spoken words

Question 24

proxemics

Answer 24

study of how people perceive and use space

Question 25

Literacy

Answer 25

ability to read and write
abstract, generalizing, context-free, objectively distanced, analytic, record-based, historical, truth-based, skeptical and inquiring

Question 26

Orality

Answer 26

ability to hear and speak;
concrete, particularizing, context-bound, situational, subjective, empathetic, participatory, aggregative, memory-based, myth-based, opinionated, belief-based and traditional

Question 27

literacy 2

Answer 27

permanence, able to draw on the text time after time. study and examine documents closely

Question 28

Photographic Truths

Answer 28

Cambodia, Pol Pot, words sounded good but were misleading. After that experience, photos are seen as the most truthful because they can’t be skewed like words.

Question 29

Literate people can not be shown to be any more:

Answer 29

logical, critical, objective, or analytic than non literate or oral people

Question 30

European Middle Ages

Answer 30

illiteracy was appropriate for nobility. had scribes;

Question 31

Enlightenment

Answer 31

fashionable for eltes to be able to read and write; women, ethnic and racial groups were excluded

Question 32

America

Answer 32

Civil War: slaves kept illiterate: Frederick Douglas

“charity schools” to encourage limited literacy to get more efficient wand effective workers