| Shape of Script: How and Why Writing Systems Change Contributor(s): Houston, Stephen D. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1934691429 ISBN-13: 9781934691427 Publisher: School for Advanced Research Press OUR PRICE: $34.60 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Alphabets & Writing Systems - Social Science | Anthropology - General |
| Dewey: 411.7 |
| LCCN: 2010052607 |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (1.10 lbs) 346 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
