26.698, Books: Writing Systems: Sampson

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Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2015 18:14:15
From: Janet Joyce [jjoyce at equinoxpub.com]
Subject: Writing Systems: Sampson

 


Title: Writing Systems 
Publication Year: 2015 
Publisher: Equinox Publishing Ltd
	   http://www.equinoxpub.com/
	

Book URL: http://www.equinoxpub.com/home/writing-systems-linguistic-introduction-second-edition-geoffrey-samps 


Author: Geoffrey Sampson

Hardback: ISBN:  9781781791035 Pages: 294 Price: U.S. $ 100 Comment: £60
Paperback: ISBN:  9781781791042 Pages: 294 Price: U.S. $ 29.95 Comment: £19.99


Abstract:

The cultures of the world have chosen different ways to make spoken language
visible and permanent. The original edition of Writing Systems represented the
first time that modern linguistic principles were brought to bear on a study
of this. Now this new edition brings the story up to date; it incorporates
topics which have emerged since the first edition (such as electronic
techniques for encoding the world's scripts), together with new findings about
established topics, including the ultimate historical origin of our alphabet.
Featuring a series of detailed case studies of scripts of diverse types, and
giving due attention to the psychology of reading and learning to read, the
book is written so as to be accessible to those with no prior knowledge of any
writing systems other than our own.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Writing Systems


Written In: English  (eng)

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