The Disappearance of Writing Systems
Perspectives on Literacy and Communication
This volume gathers papers from the first conference ever to be held on the disappearance of writing systems, in Oxford in March 2004. While the invention and decipherment of writing systems have long been focuses of research, their eclipse or replacement have been little studied. Because writing is so important in many cultures and civilizations, its disappearance - followed by a period without it or by replacement with a different writing system - is of almost equal significance to invention as a mark of radical change. Probably more writing systems have disappeared than have survived in the last five thousand years.Case studies from the Ol…
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Weitere Autoren: Bennet, John (Hrsg.) / Houston, Stephen (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-84553-907-8
- EAN: 9781845539078
- Produktnummer: 23305691
- Verlag: Equinox Publishing Ltd
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
- Seitenangabe: 398 S.
- Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.6 cm x D2.1 cm 603 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 603
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