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Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2016 11:14:52
From: Linda McGrath [linda.mcgrath at degruyter.com]
Subject: The Writing System of Scribe Zhou: Park
Title: The Writing System of Scribe Zhou
Subtitle: Evidence from Late Pre-imperial Chinese Manuscripts and Inscriptions
(5th-3rd Centuries BCE)
Series Title: Studies in Manuscript Cultures
Publication Year: 2016
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
http://www.degruyter.com/mouton
Book URL: http://www.degruyter.com/view/product/463696
Author: Haeree Park
Electronic: ISBN: 9783110459319 Pages: 328 Price: Europe EURO 0.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9783110449440 Pages: 328 Price: Europe EURO 109.95
Abstract:
This book investigates the nature of regional variation in the early Chinese
writing system through bamboo manuscripts and inscriptions dating from the
late pre-imperial China (5th-3rd centuries BCE). Diachronic and synchronic
comparisons of graphic details show that none of the well-recognized regional
varieties developed independently from one another. Furthermore, differences
in graphic components can be accounted for as alternations of graphs that are
compatible in their semantic or phonetic values. The phonological systems
underlying various regional orthographies unanimously point to a single
coherent sound system with some mixture of dialect pronunciations. This
strongly suggests that all the late pre-imperial regional scripts derived from
a kind of orthographic meta-system based on one spoken standard language. This
orthography and its phonological systems should reasonably be dated to ca. 9th
century BCE, just about the time when the earliest known Chinese lexicography
"Book of Scribe Zhou" (ca. 830 BCE) was written. The conclusions of this book
have further implications on reading and understanding manuscript texts in
general as well as on using them as data for linguistic studies.
Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
Sociolinguistics
Writing Systems
Subject Language(s): Chinese, Mandarin (cmn)
Language Family(ies): Sino-Tibetan
Written In: English (eng)
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