Writing : theory and history of the technology of civilization /
Writing: Theory and History of the Technology of Civilization traces the origins of writing tied to speech from ancient Sumer through the Greek alphabet and beyond. Examines the earliest evidence for writing in Mesopotamia in the fourth millennium BC, the origins of purely phonographic systems, and...
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| Language: | English |
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Chichester, West Sussex ; Malden, MA :
John Wiley & Sons,
2012.
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| Series: | Wiley Online Library.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- WritingTheory and History of theTechnology of Civilization; Contents; Illustrations; Maps; Preface; Chronology; Introduction: A Difficult Topic, Little Studied, Poorly Understood; 1What Is Writing?; 2Writing with Signs; 3Categories and Features of Writing; 4Some General Issues in theStudy of Writing; 5Protocuneiform andCounting Tokens; 6Origin of Lexigraphic Writingin Mesopotamia; 7 Plato's Ideas and Champollion's Decipherment of the Egyptian Hieroglyphs; 8Egyptian Writing andEgyptian Speech; 9The Origin and Nature ofEgyptian Writing;10 "The House of Life": Scribes and Writing in Ancient Egypt11Syllabic Scripts of the Aegean; 12The West Semitic Revolution; 13What Kind of Writing WasWest Semitic?; 14The Origins ofWest Semitic Writing; 15Chinese Logography; 16Lexigraphic Writing inMesoamerica; 17The Greek Alphabet: A WritingThat Changed the World; 18Summary and Conclusions; Glossary; Bibliography; Index.