Writing and Script: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

✍ Scribed by Andrew Robinson

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Year: 2009
Tongue: English
Leaves: 177
Series: Very Short Introductions
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

The book is fine if you want to know the history of writing and script up to about a hundred years ago, then it falls flat. It barely covers scripts that were invented in the 20th century, Romanization, or how scripts are used on computers and the Internet. "Very short" is fine, but it could have had a better mix.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 10
List of illustrations......Page 12
1 Writing and its emergence......Page 14
2 Development and diffusion of writing......Page 30
3 Disappearance of scripts......Page 49
4 Decipherment and undeciphered scripts......Page 65
5 How writing systems work......Page 87
6 Alphabets......Page 105
7 Chinese and Japanese writing......Page 123
8 Scribes and materials......Page 136
9 Writing goes electronic......Page 148
Chronology......Page 158
Further reading......Page 162
C......Page 166
E......Page 167
J......Page 168
P......Page 169
Z......Page 170

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