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Language of tomorrow : towards a transcultural visual communication system in a posthuman condition /
A comprehensive guide to the history, evolution and current forms of pictographic communication, from Mesopotamian writing systems to emojis. It also discusses the future of communication and the possibility of developing a standardized universal pictographic language. 73 b/w 37 col. illus.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bristol :
Intellect Books,
[2020]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover
- Half Title
- Images
- Language of Tomorrow: Towards a Transcultural Visual Communication System in a Posthuman Condition
- Copyright
- Table of contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Pictographic, Logographic, Ideographic Writing Systems and Languages
- 1 The origins of writing
- 2 Historical overview, timeline and locations of the development of writing
- 2.2 Bronze Age writing
- 2.3 Iron Age writing
- 2.4 Writing in the Greco-Roman civilizations
- 2.5 Writing during the Middle Ages
- 3 Renaissance and the modern era
- 4 Pictographic/ideographic/logographic writing systems
- 4.1 Chinese characters (6500 BC)
- 4.2 Mesopotamian writing systems: Cuneiforms
- 4.2.3 Sumerian, Akkadian cuneiforms (Assyrian and Babylonian) (3300 BC to 100 AD)
- 4.3 Egyptian hieroglyphs (3100 BC to 400 AD)
- 4.4 Mesoamerican writing systems (900 BC to 1697 AD)
- 4.4.1 Aztec, Nahuatl writing (1400 BC to 1600 AD)
- 4.4.2 Mixtec (1200 BC to 1600 AD)
- 4.4.3 Zapotec (500 BC to 1000 AD)
- 4.4.4 Maya script (300 BC to 1697 AD)
- 4.4.5 Isthmian script/Epi-Olmec script (100 BC to 500 AD)
- 4.5 Nsibidi (400 and 1400 AD)
- 4.6 Dongba symbols: Naxi (1000 AD)
- 4.7 Testerian catechism (1600 AD)
- 4.8 Conclusion
- 5 Fictional scripts: Selected fictional writing systems used in books, films and computer games
- 5.1 Utopian alphabet for the book Utopia
- 5.2 The Ancients' alphabet for the Stargate series
- 5.3 Aurebesh for Star Wars
- 5.4 Atlantean for the film Atlantis: The Lost Empire
- 5.5 Interlac for the DC Comics language of the United Planets
- 5.6 Hymmnos for the video game series Ar Tonelico
- 5.8 Uruk Runes alphabet for The Lord of the Rings
- 5.9 Kryptonian alphabet (Kryptonese) for Superman
- 5.10 Klingon alphabet for Star Trek
- Chapter 2 Methods of Constructed Pictographic Communication Systems
- 1 Emoticons
- 1.1 Western styles
- 1.2 Eastern styles
- 1.2.1 Kaomoji (Japanese emoticon)
- 1.2.2 Korean emoticon
- 1.2.3 Chinese ideographic style
- 1.3 iConji
- 1.4 Emoji
- 1.4.1 Emoji grammar
- 2 Blissymbolics
- 3 Isotype: International picture language
- 4 Nobel Universal graphical language
- 5 Icon-language (Pictoperanto)
- 6 LoCoS universal visible language
- 7 Earth language
- 8 Pictographic projects
- 8.1 Frutiger Universal means perception
- 8.2 Xu Bing's Book from the Ground
- 8.3 Juli Gudehus's Book of Genesis
- 8.4 The Elephant's Memory
- 8.5 The Noun Project
- 9 Pictorial messages
- 9.1 Warning messages for future humans: WIPP warning markers
- 9.2 Messages to extra-terrestrial intelligence
- 9.2.1 Pioneer plaques
- 9.2.2 Voyager Golden Record
- 9.2.3 The Arecibo message
- 10 Summary of the strengths and the weaknesses of the constructed pictographic communication systems
- 11 Universal facial expressions/universal grammar
- 11.1 Universal facial expressions
- 11.2 Chomsky's universal grammar