36.164, Writing from Invention to Decipherment: Ferrara, Montecchi and Vale (eds.) (2024)

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Subject: 36.164, Writing from Invention to Decipherment: Ferrara, Montecchi and Vale (eds.) (2024)

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Date: 14-Jan-2025
From: Rachel Havard [Rachel.HAVARD at oup.com]
Subject: Writing from Invention to Decipherment: Ferrara, Montecchi and Vale (eds.) (2024)


Title: Writing from Invention to Decipherment
Publication Year: 2024

Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Book URL:
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/writing-from-invention-to-decipherment-9780198908746?utm_source=linguistlist&utm_medium=listserv&utm_campaign=linguistics

Editor(s): Silvia Ferrara, Barbara Montecchi, Miguel Vale

Hardback: ISBN: 9780198908746 Pages: 352 Price: U.S. $ 155.00

Abstract:

Writing from Invention to Decipherment contains a wealth of global
scholarship on ancient writing systems from China, Mesopotamia,
Central America, and the Mediterranean, to more recent newly created
scripts such as the Rongorongo from Easter Island, the Caroline Island
scripts, as well as the alphabet. The aim is to dig into the
foundations of writing, showcasing the complexities and varieties of
scripts, from their invention to the potential decipherment of poorly
understood scripts.
The volume offers state-of-the-art research on undeciphered scripts
from the Aegean (as for example, Cretan Hieroglyphic and Linear A) or
not completely deciphered (as for example Maya) scripts. From a
methodological perspective, these contributions lay out how and why
writing was invented, who used it, and to what ends. Here writing is
presented as a multi-modal cultural phenomenon, that intersects and
transcends neat discipline boundaries, within an inclusive approach
bridging archaeology, linguistics, epigraphy, and cognitive studies.

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
                     Historical Linguistics
                     History of Linguistics
                     Writing Systems




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