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Secret Writing
Peter Sears
其他書名
Keys to the Mysteries of Reading and Writing
出版Teachers & Writers Collaborative, 1986
主題Juvenile Nonfiction / Foreign Language Study / GeneralJuvenile Nonfiction / Games & Activities / GeneralJuvenile Nonfiction / Games & Activities / PuzzlesJuvenile Nonfiction / Language Arts / GeneralLanguage Arts & Disciplines / Communication Studies
ISBN09159248629780915924868
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=naQQAQAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋With a central theme of how people create a means to communicate reliably, and based on language-making exercises that touch students' imaginations, this book aims to interest students in language and how language is made. Since students like codes and ciphers, the book begins with secret writing, which is then used to reveal the foundation of English. The second part of the book presents the basic conventions of English, and shows how--by altering these conventions--a person can disguise meaning (in codes and ciphers), and by following the conventions--a person can communicate clearly. The third part of the book uses knowledge of these conventions of language to figure out difficult passages in English, from Chaucer to Joyce and Cummings. The fourth part of the book is an examination of other kinds of language, applying the conventions of language to systems of numbers and picture-writing (such as traffic signs and comic books) to see if they are languages, too. This part functions as a preparation for the fifth section of the book, on sending a message into outer space, in which students have the challenge of deciphering messages sent out by scientists and then deciding on their own messages. A 16-item bibliography is attached. (SR)