Stop Sign [language], at just under 60 minutes in length, leaves you begging to know more. And so we present, without further ado, Eleni’s official list of Sources and Further Reading.
• The Alphabet, David Diringer
• The Alphabet Effect, Robert K. Logan
• The Alphabetic Labyrinth, Johanna Drucker
• The Alphabet Verses the Goddess: The Conflict between Word and Image, Leonard Shlain
• The Art of Looking Sideways, Alan Fletcher
• Beginning to Read: Thinking and Learning about Print, M.J. Adams
• Becoming a Word Learner, Roberta Micknick Golinkoff, Kathryn Hirsh-Pasek, Lois Bloom, and Linda B. Smith
• The Biology and Evolution of Language, Philip Leiberman
• Blackwell Handbook of Childhood Cognitive Development, Usha Goswami
• Braille: A language for Severe Dyslexics, Lois E. McCoy
• Current status of the Gestural Theory of Language Origin, G.W. Hewes
• Dyslexia: A Hemispheric Exploration
• Early Writing Instruction, Diane McGuinness
• The Enduring Mystery of Dyslexia, Warren R. Young
• The First Writing, Stephen D. Houston
• The Fourth Dimension and Non-Euclidean Geometry in Modern Art, Linda Dalrymple Henderson
• The Gutenberg Galaxy, Marshall McLuhan
• A History of English Spelling, D.G. Scragg
• I Can Think, But What’s Wrong With My Words, Margaret Rawson
• Inadequate Perception vs. Reversals, Marvin Cohn, George Stricker
• Language and the Brain, Lorain K. Olber and Kris Gjerlow
• Language Development and Learning to Read, Diane McGuinness
• Learning, Language, and Cognition, Arthur W. Staats
• Letter Perfect, David Sacks
• Man and His Symbols, Carl Jung
• Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD)
• Mirror Mind: Growing Up Dyslexic, Tory Woollcott
• The Muse Learns to Write: Reflections on Orality and Literacy from Antiquity to the Present, Eric A. Havelock
• Origins of Western Literacy, Eric A. Havelock
• Reading Disability: An Information-Processing Analysis, Frederick J. Morrison, Bruno Giordani, Jill Nagy
• Reading, Writing and Dyslexia: A Cognitive Analysis, Andrew Ellis
• Reading the Past: Current Approaches to Interpretation in Archaeology, Ian Hodder and Scott Hutson
• Reversals in Reading: Diagnosis and Remediation, Sandra B Moyer, Phyllis L. Newcomer
• The Right Mind, Robert Ornstein
• Shapes for Sounds, Timothy Donaldson
• Signs and Symbols, Vladimir Nabokov
• The Story of the Alphabet, Edward Clodd
• A Study of Writing, I.J. Gelb
• Teacher’s Handbook and Diagnosis and Remediation in Reading, Edon E. Ekwall
• Teaching and Learning through Multiple Intelligences, Linda Campbell
• The 26 Letters, Oscar Ogg
• Understanding Comics, Scott McCloud
• When Children Don’t Learn, Diane McGuinness
• Why Our Children Can’t Read And What We Can Do About It, Diane McGuinness
Also … Sections of Stop Sign [language] were inspired by the original work Signs and Symbols created by Joan Bruemmer, Jessica Cerullo, John Milosich, Eleni Papaleonardos, and Elizabeth Watt under the guidance of Leigh Fondakowski and Moisés Kaufman of the Tectonic Theatre Project and Wendell Beavers of Naropa University.
Just to mention… on new year’s eve 🙂