Author: Arielle SaiberPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 0802039502
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
Measured Words
Author: Arielle SaiberPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 0802039502
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
Measured Words
Author: Arielle SaiberPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487513313
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 431
Book Description
Measured Words explores the rich commerce between computation and writing that proliferated in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Italy. In this captivating and generously illustrated work, Arielle Saiber studies the relationship between number, shape, and the written word in the works of four exceptional thinkers of the time: Leon Battista Alberti, Luca Pacioli, Niccolò Tartaglia, and Giambattista Della Porta. Although these Renaissance humanists came from different social classes and practised the mathematical and literary arts at varying levels of sophistication, they were all guided by a sense that there exist deep ontological and epistemological bonds between computational and verbal thinking and production. Their shared view that a network or continuity exists between the literary arts and mathematics yielded extraordinary results, from Alberti’s treatise on cryptography and Pacioli’s design calculations for the Roman alphabet to Tartaglia’s poetic solutions of cubic equations and Della Porta’s dramatic applications of geometry. Through lively, cogent analysis of these and other related texts of the period, Measured Words presents, literally and figuratively, brilliant examples of what interdisciplinary work can offer us.
Measured Language
Author: Jeffrey Connor-LintonPublisher: Georgetown University Press
ISBN: 1626160376
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Measured Language presents studies using forms of measurement and quantitative analysis current in diverse areas of linguistic research from language assessment to language change, from generative linguistics to experimental psycholinguistics, and from longitudinal studies to classroom research.
Measured Constructs
Author: Cyril J. WeirPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107677696
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 673
Book Description
This volume establishes how English language constructs were measured in Cambridge English examinations over the period 1913 to 2012. An addition to the Studies in Language Testing series, this volume provides an overview of English language testing over the last century, with coverage of key theoretical and practical aspects of the assessment of reading, listening, writing and speaking skills. It includes examples of the Cambridge English exams, old and new, and is the first volume to describe in a systematic way the different theoretical influences which have shaped the development of the constructs underlying Cambridge English exams in the last 100 years.
The New Word
Author: Allen UpwardPublisher: London, Fifield
ISBN:
Category : Idealism
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
All the Words You'll Ever Need
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9780739432921
Category : Commercial correspondence
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Vocal and Literary Interpretation of the Bible
Author: Samuel Silas CurryA Study of Wagner
Author: Ernest NewmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music theory
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
The Mahabharata
Author: Adapting Tests in Linguistic and Cultural Situations
Author: Dragoş IliescuPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107110122
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 711
Book Description
This book provides a practical but scientifically grounded step-by-step approach to the adaptation of tests in linguistic and cultural contexts.