rdf-syntax-grammar
mods:
  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Hyphens & hashtags*
    sub title: *the stories behind the symbols on our keyboards
  title info:
    title: Hyphens and hashtags
  name:
    name part: Cock-Starkey, Claire
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: History.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2021
    copyright date: 2021
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 183 pages ; 20 cm
  abstract: "In our digital world, we owe much of our ability to communicate to the punctuation marks, mathematical symbols, and other glyphs that hover on the edges of our keyboard. Without these symbols, it would be impossible to convey meaning--our words would run in endless unbroken lines of letters and numbers. These marks, which have their origins in the earliest written communications, have evolved over many hundreds of years. Hyphens & Hashtags presents the histories of these stalwart symbols, revealing the long road many have taken on their way to general usage. In the age of digital communication, some symbols have gained additional meanings. The obscure pound sign has transformed into the hashtag, an essential component of social media. The colon now serves double duty as the eyes of the smiley-face emoticon. Alongside the historical roots of these tools, this book also considers ever-evolving modern usage and uncovers those symbols which have now fallen out of fashion. Hyphens & Hashtags casts a well-deserved spotlight on these deceptively simple marks, whose handy knack for conveying meaning in simple shorthand can marshal our sentences, clarify a calculation, or add some much-needed emotion to our online interactions."--Amazon.com.
  table of contents: Punctuation -- Glyphs -- Mathematical symbols -- Endangered & extinct symbols.
  note: Claire Cock-Starkey.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Punctuation
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Mathematical notation
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Signs and symbols
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Mathematical notation
  subject:
    topic: Punctuation
  subject:
    topic: Signs and symbols
  classification: P301.5.P86 C63 2021
  classification: 411
  identifier: 9781851245369
  identifier: 1851245367
  location:
    physical location: pda,print
  record info:
    record content source: UKMGB
    record creation date: 201021
    record change date: 20250318222037.2
    record identifier: in00004402414
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng