ISBN:
978-1-934691-42-7
Language:
English
Pages:
XXIII, 317 Seiten
,
Illustrationen, Karten
Edition:
First edition
Series Statement:
School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar Series [99]
Keywords:
Schrift Kommunikation
;
Geschichte
;
Entwicklung
Abstract:
This book builds on earlier projects about the origins and extinctions of script traditions throughout the world in an effort to address the fundamental questions of how and why writing systems change. The contributors—who study ancient scripts from Arabic to Roman, from Bronze Age China to Middle Kingdom Egypt—utilize an approach that views writing less as a technology than as a mode of communication, one that is socially learned and culturally transmitted. (Umschlagtext)
Description / Table of Contents:
List of figures and tables -- Preface: The Shape of Script - Views from the Middle -- Cuneiform: Changes and Developments / Niek Veldhuis -- Scripts, High Culture, and Administration in Middle Kingdom Egypt / John Baines -- Paragrams, Punctuation, and System in Ancient Roman Script / John Bodel -- Stability and Change in Arabic Script / Beatrice Gruendler -- Some Principles and Patterns of Script Change / Richard Salomon -- Script Change in Bronze Age China / Kyle Steinke -- The Development of Writing in Japan / David B. Lurie -- Maya Writing: Modified, Transformed / Stephen D. Houston -- The Shape of Script in a Colonial Context: Alphabetic and Pictorial Registers in Mixtec Texts / John Monaghan -- Trends and Transitions in the History of Written Numerals / Stephen Chrisomalis -- References -- Index
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 255-303"School for Advanced Research advanced seminar The Shape of Script: How and Why Writing Systems Change, [...] April 15-19, 2007" (letzte Seite)Enthält ein Vorwort und 10 Beiträge
