This is an encyclopedia of writing systems, scripts and
orthographies of all the world's major languages, past and present.
It provides both a fully illustrated description of over 400
writing systems and an account of the study of writing in many
different disciplines, from anthropology to psychology. Entries in
this encyclopedia describe how writing systems evolved, how they
work, and how they differ from each other. They deal with technical
aspects such as handwriting, printing, word processing; with
practical problems of decipherment, alphabet making and spelling
reform; and with theoretical questions such as the functions of
writing and the typology of writing systems.
Florian Coulmas starts from the view that writing reflects a
process of linguistic analysis. Yet he ranges widely among
different scientific disciplines. He draws on historical and
paleographic research into fundamental structural options of
representing language by means of a graphic code, on psychological
investigation into the social conditions and consequences of
literacy.
Entries vary between short explanations of terms and concepts,
brief accounts of individual writing systems and longer theoretical
articles. The encyclopedia contains an exceptional array of visual
examples and is supported by a comprehensive bibliography.
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