Writing C

1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-4051-6256-2
Verlag: Turner Publishing Company

Buch, Englisch, 298 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 587 g

Writing: Theory and History of the Technology of Civilization traces the origins of writing tied to speech from ancient Sumer through the Greek alphabet and beyond.
* Examines the earliest evidence for writing in Mesopotamia in the fourth millennium BC, the origins of purely phonographic systems, and the mystery of alphabetic writing
* Includes discussions of Ancient Egyptian,Chinese, and Mayan writing
* Shows how the structures of writing served and do serve social needs and in turn create patterns of social behavior
* Clarifies the argument with many illustrations

Autoren/Hrsg.

Powell, Barry B

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Theoretische Linguistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Schrift, Paläographie, Orthographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations.

Maps.

Preface.

Chronology.

Introduction: A Difficult Topic, Little Studied, Poorly Understood.

1. What Is Writing?

2. Writing with Signs.

3. Categories and Features of Writing.

4. Some General Issues in the Study of Writing.

5. Protocuneiform and Counting Tokens.

6. Origin of Lexigraphic Writing in Mesopotamia.

7. Plato's Ideas and Champollion's Decipherment of the Egyptian Hieroglyphs.

8. Egyptian Writing and Egyptian Speech.

9. The Origin and Nature of Egyptian Writing.

10. "The House of Life": Scribes and Writing in Ancient Egypt.

11. Syllabic Scripts of the Aegean.

12. The West Semitic Revolution.

13. What Kind of Writing Was West Semitic?

14. The Origins of West Semitic Writing.

15. Chinese Logography.

16. Lexigraphic Writing in Mesoamerica.

17. The Greek Alphabet: A Writing That Changed the World.

18. Summary and Conclusions.

Glossary.

Bibliography.

Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Barry B. Powell is Halls-Bascom Professor Emeritus of Classics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has written extensively on ancient Greek literature and the history of writing. His books include Homer and the Origin of the Greek Alphabet (1991), A New Companion to Homer (editor, with Ian Morris) (1997), Writing and the Origins of Greek Literature (2001), and two editions of Homer (second edition, Blackwell, 2007).