History of Writing - Brossura

Fischer, Steven Roger

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ISBN 10: 1861891679 ISBN 13: 9781861891679

Casa editrice: Reaktion Books, 2003

Riassunto

From the earliest scratches on stone and bone to the languages of computers and the internet, A History of Writing offers a fascinating investigation into the origin and development of writing throughout the world.

Commencing with the first stages of information storage, Fischer focuses on the emergence of complete writing systems in Mesopotamia in the fourth millennium BC. He documents the rise of Phoenician and its effect on the Greek alphabet, generating the many alphabetic scripts of the West. Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean and Japanese writing systems are dealt with in depth, as is writing in pre-Columbian America. Also explored are Western Europe's medieval manuscripts and the history of printing, leading to the innovations in technology and spelling rules of the 19th and 20th centuries.

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L'autore

Steven Roger Fischer is Director of the Institute of Polynesian Languages and Literatures in Auckland, New Zealand. He is the author of Glyph-breaker (1997). A History of Writing is part of Fischer’s trilogy for Reaktion, which also includes A History of Language and A History of Reading.

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Book by Fischer Steven Roger

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• Editore: Reaktion Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1861891679
• ISBN 13: 9781861891679
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 352