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An Exploration of Writing (Hardcover)
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An Exploration of Writing (Hardcover)
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An Exploration of Writing is a book about our alphabets, our
syllabaries, and all the other kinds of writing that people use and
have used for 5000 years. It introduces the general public to a
topic that hardly anyone has heard about, so it clarifies basic
linguistic terms as they occur. For linguists exploring the growing
field of graphonomy-the study of writing systems-in which the
author has long been a pioneer, it weaves together the many threads
of theory into a tapestry showing a fuller picture of what all our
scripts are seen to share. An Exploration of Writing begins with
more familiar kinds of writing considered in unfamiliar
ways-starting with English viewed syllabically--and leads the
reader across the Old World and the New to less familiar kinds of
writing, showing how all writings share a fundamental essence,
however diverse they appear to be, because all writing represents
language. The more familiar (Hebrew, Chinese, Korean) leads on to
the less familiar (Udi, Pahlavi, Javanese). Featured are some of
the world's most recently elucidated scripts, and some that are
long known but long neglected, such as those for Central Asian
languages, and some of the most recent interpretations of
long-mysterious scripts, such as Sumerian and Mesoamerican. An
Exploration of Writing is in the tradition of and in part a
response to A Study of Writing (1952/1963), by I. J. Gelb. It
encapsulates more than thirty years of the author's work and his
dozens of articles on writing systems, ranging from investigating
the physical process of writing to bringing to light the
achievements of those who had deciphered forgotten scripts to
developing a theoretical approach to the origins of writing which
leads to insights into the nature of writing itself.
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