Writing Systems /2E: Second Edition - Hardcover

Sampson

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1781791031 ISBN 13: 9781781791035

Verlag: Equinox Publishing Ltd, 2014

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The cultures of the world have chosen different ways to make spoken language visible and permanent. The original edition of Writing Systems represented the first time that modern linguistic principles were brought to bear on a study of this. Now this new edition brings the story up to date; it incorporates topics which have emerged since the first edition (such as electronic techniques for encoding the world's scripts), together with new findings about established topics, including the ultimate historical origin of our alphabet. Featuring a series of detailed case studies of scripts of diverse types, and giving due attention to the psychology of reading and learning to read, the book is written so as to be accessible to those with no prior knowledge of any writing systems other than our own.

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Geoffrey Sampson is Professor Emeritus at Sussex University and a Research Fellow in the Linguistics Department at the University of South Africa. His most recent book is Grammar Without Grammaticality (2014, with Anna Babarczy).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Equinox Publishing Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1781791031
• ISBN 13: 9781781791035
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 2
• Anzahl der Seiten: 294
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