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| Titre : | The Story of Writing : Alphabets, Hieroglypfs & Pictograms |
| Auteurs : | Andrew Robinson, Auteur |
| Type de document : | texte imprimé |
| Mention d'édition : | 2nd ed. |
| Editeur : | London [GB] : Thames and Hudson, 2007 |
| ISBN/ISSN/EAN : | 978-0-500-28660-9 |
| Format : | 232 p. / Photos N&B et couleurs; bibliographie; index |
| Note générale : | 1st ed. 1995 |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Index. décimale : | PG (Histoire de l'écriture) |
| Résumé : |
Without writing there would be no history and no civilization as we know it. But how, when and where did writing evolve?
In a succinct and absorbing text, Andrew Robinson explains the interconnection between sound, symbol and script. He discusses each of the major writing systems in turn, from cuneiform and Egyptian and Mayan hieroglyphs to alphabets and the scripts of China and Japan, as well as others such as the Cherokee “alphabet” and the writing of runes. Full coverage is given to the history of decipherment and a provocative chapter devoted to undeciphered scripts challenges the reader: can these codes ever be broken? In this new edition, the author reveals the latest discoveries to have an impact on our knowledge of the history of writing, including the Tabula Cortonensis showing Etruscan symbols, and a third millennium BC seal from Turkmenistan that could solve the mystery of how Chinese writing evolved. He also discusses how the digital revolution has not, despite gloomy predictions, spelled doom for the printed book. In addition, the table of Maya glyphs has been revised so that it is up to date with current research. |
| Note de contenu : |
- Introduction
I. HOW WRITING WORKS - Chapter 1. Reading the Rosetta Stone: The Classical Image of Egypt • The Wisdom of the Hieroglyphs The Discovery of the Rosetta Stone • The Decipherment Begins • Champollion Breaks the Egyptian Code • The Essence of Egyptian Hieroglyphs - Chapter 2. Sound, Symbol and Script: Visible and Invisible Speech • Sign Language • Theories of Reading • Sound and Spelling • Conveying Meaning in Writing • Rebuses • Shorthand • Classification of Writing Systems • Language and Script • The Prestige of a Script • The Graphic Dimension • Pictography - Chapter 3. Proto-Writing: Ice Age Symbols • Tallies • Amerindian Pictograms A Siberian Love Letter • Clay ‘Tokens’ • Clay Envelopes The First Clay Tablets • Counting in the Ancient Middle East Archaic Book-keeping II. EXTINCT WRITING - Chapter 4. Cuneiform: Ancient Mesopotamia • The Decipherment of Cuneiform First Successes • Rawlinson and the Behistun Inscription Cuneiform Deciphered • Cuneiform as an Art Cuneiform as a Craft • The Evolution of the Signs Numerals and Arithmetic • Computers and Cuneiform Cuneiform ‘Literature’ • Hittite Cuneiform and Hittite Hieroglyphs - Chapter 5. Egyptian Hieroglyphs: The Development of Egyptian Writing • The Direction of Egyptian Writing • The Sound of Ancient Egyptian The Hieroglyphic ‘Alphabet’ • The Hidden Power of Hieroglyphs • Types of Hieroglyph • The Book of the Dead Some Hieroglyphic Words • A Glazed Tile of Ramesses II The Profession of Scribe - Chapter 6. Linear B: Arthur Evans as Decipherer • The Cypriot Clue • Deciphering Linear B • Breakthrough • ‘The tablets are in Greek’ - Chapter 7. Mayan Glyphs: The Myth of the Ancient Maya • Who are the Maya? Maya Numbers and Time • Maya Dates The Dresden Codex • The Mayan Alphabet’ Decipherment Begins • A Mixed Writing System A Mayan Syllabary • A Maya ‘Tutankhamun’ The Birth and Death of Pacal • The Murals of Bonampak • A Maya Chocolate Cup - Chapter 8. Undeciphered Scripts: Difficulties of Decipherment • Seal Secrets of the Indus The Indus Script • Cretan Linear A • The Phaistos Disc Proto-Elamite • Greek but not Greek: Etruscan • Etruscan Inscriptions • Rongorongo III. LIVING WRITING - Chapter 9. The First Alphabet: The Riddle of the Alphabet • The Earliest ‘Alphabetic’ Inscriptions • An Alphabet in Cuneiform The Phoenician Letters • What the Greeks Heard - Chapter 10. New Alphabets From Old: The Family of Alphabets • The Greek and Latin Letters Hebrew and the Aramaic Script • The Arabic Script Indian Scripts • An Alphabet Invented by a King Runes • Reading the Runes • The Cherokee Alphabet’ The Mystique of the Alphabet - Chapter 11. Chinese Writing: Reading the Bones • The Development of Chinese Characters Classifying Chinese Characters • The Soothill Syllabary The Chinese Language • Chinese Calligraphy • Forming Characters: Craft and Art • Pinyin: Romanizing Chinese - Chapter 12. Japanese Writing: Learning Kanji • Hiragana and Katakana • Kana Versus Kanji The Most Complicated Writing in the World • Kanji, Kana and Romaji • The Future of Writing in Japan The Computerization of Kanji - Chapter 13. From Hieroglyphs to Alphabets -and Back? - Postscript: Writing in the New Millennium - Further Reading - Index |
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