Project Two - Graphical Writing System Wriging Systems are organized in visual space

Robert N. St. Clair Department of Communication, University of Louisville

Graphic writing systems are organized in cognitive visual space. Chinese, for example, is spatially organized as a visual system. It differs in its organization from the visual system underlying hieroglyphics, or American Sign Langauge (ASL)

	The Chinese writing system is organized in a different visual and cognitive space than other writing systems. This organization is the focus of this investigation.  Chinese Writing Systems   The Organization of Cognitive Space in Chinese Robert N. St. Clair and YuXin Jia,
	The organization of visual space in Egyptian Hieroglypics differs from those of other ideographic writing systems such as the Mayan Glyphs. This is an investigation of the cognitive space associated with this graphic writing system.   Egyptian Hieroglyphics (under construction)
	There is a need to re-present ASL into a graphic writing system that can be used over a wide range of needs within modernity. This investigation is an attempt to use the implied structural movements found in Chinese writing to capture movements and visual space within ASL. The product of this investigation can be used for subtitles in movies, subtitles in news broadcasts, and to create a visual script for ASL.  The Representation of American Sign Language
	Mayan Hieroglyphics (under construction)
	This analysis of Arabic was done by one of my students in my graduate linguistics course. He has allowed me to share his work on the Web.   Arabic Morphology by Nasr E. Yahyaoui