The Shape of Script: How and Why Writing Systems Change (School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar Series)
ISBN-13:
9781934691427
ISBN-10:
1934691429
Edition:
Illustrated
Author:
Stephen D. Houston
Publication date:
2012
Publisher:
School for Advanced Research Press
Format:
Paperback
346 pages
Category:
Alphabet
,
Words, Language & Grammar
,
Handwriting
,
Anthropology
,
Behavioral Sciences
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ISBN-13:
9781934691427
ISBN-10:
1934691429
Edition:
Illustrated
Author:
Stephen D. Houston
Publication date:
2012
Publisher:
School for Advanced Research Press
Format:
Paperback
346 pages
Category:
Alphabet
,
Words, Language & Grammar
,
Handwriting
,
Anthropology
,
Behavioral Sciences
Summary
The Shape of Script: How and Why Writing Systems Change (School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar Series) (ISBN-13: 9781934691427 and ISBN-10: 1934691429), written by authors
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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.
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