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Writing


Writing

Theory and History of the Technology of Civilization
1. Aufl.

von: Barry B. Powell

28,99 €

Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell
Format: EPUB
Veröffentl.: 15.02.2012
ISBN/EAN: 9781118293492
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 304

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<p><b><i>Writing: Theory and History of the Technology of Civilization</i> traces the origins of writing tied to speech from ancient Sumer through the Greek alphabet and beyond.</b></p> <ul> <li>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</li> <li>Includes discussions of Ancient Egyptian,Chinese, and Mayan writing</li> <li>Shows how the structures of writing served and do serve social needs and in turn create patterns of social behavior</li> <li>Clarifies the argument with many illustrations</li> </ul>
List of Illustrations ix <p>Maps xiv</p> <p>Preface xv</p> <p>Chronology xvii</p> <p>Introduction: A Difficult Topic, Little Studied, Poorly Understood 1</p> <p>1 What Is Writing? 11</p> <p>2 Writing with Signs 19</p> <p>3 Categories and Features of Writing 38</p> <p>4 Some General Issues in the Study of Writing 51</p> <p>5 Protocuneiform and Counting Tokens 60</p> <p>6 Origin of Lexigraphic Writing in Mesopotamia 70</p> <p>7 Plato's <i>Ideas</i> and Champollion’s Decipherment of the</p> <p>Egyptian Hieroglyphs 85</p> <p>8 Egyptian Writing and Egyptian Speech 100</p> <p>9 The Origin and Nature of Egyptian Writing 108</p> <p>10 “The House of Life”: Scribes and Writing in Ancient Egypt 120</p> <p>11 Syllabic Scripts of the Aegean 128</p> <p>12 The West Semitic Revolution 148</p> <p>13 What Kind of Writing Was West Semitic? 163</p> <p>14 The Origins of West Semitic Writing 175</p> <p>15 Chinese Logography 187</p> <p>16 Lexigraphic Writing in Mesoamerica 206</p> <p>17 The Greek Alphabet: A Writing That Changed the World 227</p> <p>18 Summary and Conclusions 245</p> <p>Glossary 255</p> <p>Bibliography 263</p> <p>Index 270</p>
<b>Barry B. Powell</b> 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 <i>Homer and the Origin of the Greek Alphabet</i> (1991), <i>A New Companion to Homer</i> (editor, with Ian Morris) (1997), <i>Writing and the Origins of Greek Literature</i> (2001), and two editions of <i>Homer</i> (second edition, Blackwell, 2007).
<i>Writing:</i> <i>Theory and History of the Technology of Civilization</i> offers a coherent system of terms and categories for the study of the complex phenomena in the world’s writing systems. <p>Tracing the origins of writing tied to speech from ancient Sumer through the Greek alphabet and beyond, the book examines the earliest evidence for writing in Mesopotamia in the fourth millennium BC, the relations of these systems to Egyptian and Chinese writing, the origins of purely phonographic systems, and the mystery of alphabetic writing.</p> <p>With examples from contemporary and historical writing systems, and many illustrations, <i>Writing</i> shows how the structures of writing served and do serve certain social needs and in turn create deep patterns of social behavior.</p>

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