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Writing and script : a very short introduction /
"Starting with the origins of writing five thousand years ago, with cuneiform and Egyptian hieroglyphs, Andrew Robinson explains how these early forms of writing developed into hundreds of scripts including the Roman alphabet and the Chinese characters. He reveals how the modern writing system...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2009.
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| Colección: | Very short introductions ;
208. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Writing and its emergence
- Development and diffusion of wrtiting
- Disappearance of scripts
- Decipherment and undeciphered scripts
- How writing systems work
- Alphabets
- Chinese and Japanese writing
- Scribes and materials
- Writing goes electronic.