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About this book
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
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Yes, you can access Writing by Barry B. Powell in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Languages & Linguistics & Linguistics. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Illustrations
- Maps
- Preface
- Chronology
- Introduction: A Difficult Topic, Little Studied, Poorly Understood
- Chapter 1: What Is Writing?
- Chapter 2: Writing with Signs
- Chapter 3: Categories and Features of Writing
- Chapter 4: Some General Issues in the Study of Writing
- Chapter 5: Protocuneiform and Counting Tokens
- Chapter 6: Origin of Lexigraphic Writing in Mesopotamia
- Chapter 7: Plato’s Ideas and Champollion’s Decipherment of the Egyptian Hieroglyphs
- Chapter 8: Egyptian Writing and Egyptian Speech
- Chapter 9: The Origin and Nature of Egyptian Writing
- Chapter 10: “The House of Life”: Scribes and Writing in Ancient Egypt
- Chapter 11: Syllabic Scripts of the Aegean
- Chapter 12: The West Semitic Revolution
- Chapter 13: What Kind of Writing Was West Semitic?
- Chapter 14: The Origins of West Semitic Writing
- Chapter 15: Chinese Logography
- Chapter 16: Lexigraphic Writing in Mesoamerica
- Chapter 17: The Greek Alphabet: A Writing That Changed the World
- Chapter 18: Summary and Conclusions
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index