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Date: 06-Feb-2012
From: Els van Egmond [egmonde at brill.nl]
Subject: The Idea of Writing: de Voogt, Quack (Eds)


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Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:13:10
From: Els van Egmond [egmonde at brill.nl]
Subject: The Idea of Writing: de Voogt, Quack (Eds)

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Title: The Idea of Writing 
Subtitle: Writing Across Borders 
Publication Year: 2011 
Publisher: Brill
	   http://www.brill.nl
	

Book URL: http://www.brill.nl/idea-writing-0 


Editor: Alex de Voogt
Editor: Joachim Friedrich Quack

Hardback: ISBN:  9789004215450 Pages: 264 Price: Europe EURO 99
Hardback: ISBN:  9789004215450 Pages: 264 Price: U.S. $ 135


Abstract:

The Idea of Writing is an exploration of the versatility of writing systems. This 
volume, the second in a series, is specifically concerned with the problems and 
possibilities of adapting a writing system to another language. Writing is studied 
as it is used across linguistic and cultural borders from ancient Egyptian, 
Cuneiform and Korean writing to Japanese, Kharosthi and Near Eastern scripts. 
This collection of articles aims to highlight the complexity of writing systems 
rather than to provide a first introduction. The different academic traditions in 
which these writing systems have been studied use linguistic, socio-historical 
and philological approaches that give complementary insights of the complex 
phenomena. 



Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Writing Systems

Language Family(ies): Afroasiatic


Written In: English  (eng)
	
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