[PDF.95kz] The Shape of Script: How and Why Writing Systems Change (School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar Series)

The Shape of Script: How and Why Writing Systems Change (School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar Series)

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 | #2073596 in Books |  School for Advanced Research Press |  2012-04-04 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.90 x1.10 x5.90l,1.20 | File type: PDF | 346 pages

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||0 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Five Stars|By Sebastian Carranza-Lira|Excellent book| |Having edited two valuable collections on how scripts are born (The First Writing) and how they die (The Disappearance of Writing Systems), Stephen Houston has now assembled a third, equally valuable collection, The Shape of Script.... Until quite recently, it

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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