The Idea of Writing: Play and Complexity
This exploration of the versatility of writing systems highlights their complexity when they are used to represent loanwords, solve problems of polysemy or when they are adapted to be used for another language. The approaches from different academic traditions provide a varied but expert account.
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Weitere Autoren: Finkel, Irving (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-90-04-17446-7
- EAN: 9789004174467
- Produktnummer: 4869821
- Verlag: Brill Academic Pub
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 396 S.
- Masse: H24.6 cm x B16.8 cm x D2.5 cm 816 g
- Reihenbandnummer: I
- Gewicht: 816
Über den Autor
Alex de Voogt, Ph.D. (1995) in Psychology, Leiden University, is an Assistant Curator at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. His studies on writing systems and the dispersal of board games focus on the Indian Ocean region. Irving Finkel, Ph.D. (1976) in Assyriology, University of Birmingham, is an Assistant Keeper at the British Museum in London. His special subjects are Ancient Mesopotamia, Cuneiform writing, Lexicography, Medicine, Esoterica and the study of Ancient Magic, in addition to contributions on the history of board games. Contributors are Margarita Winkel, Erik Boot, Joachim Friedich Quack, Henning Kloter, Wilfred H. van Soldt, Azeb Amha, Harry Falk, Claude Rilly, Wolfgang Behr, Joukje Kolff, Alex de Voogt and Irving Finkel.
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