The Writing Systems of the World

By:

Florian Coulmas

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Paperback / softback

Series:

The Language Library

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This book is an account of the writing systems of the world from earliest times to the present. Its aim is to explore the complex ways in which writing systems relate to the language they depict. Writing, Coulmas contends, is not only the guide or garment of spoken language, but has a deep and lasting effect on the development of language itself.His study takes in Egyptian hieroglyphics and the cuneiform system of the ancient Near East: he describes Chinese writing, discussing why an apparently cumbersome system has been used continuously for more than 3,000 years: he ranges across the writing systems of western Asia and the Middle East, the Indian families and the various alphabetic traditions which had its origins in the multifarious world of Semitic writing and came to full bloom in pre-Classical Greece.

Author Biography:

Florian Coulmas is Professor of Linguistics at Chuo University, Tokyo. He has written and edited several books in Linguistics and Sociolinguistics and is associate editor of the International Journal of the Sociology of Language.

Release date NZ

March 1st, 1989

Author

Florian Coulmas

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate

Pages

320

Series

The Language Library

Dimensions

155x231x17

ISBN-13

9780631180289

Product ID

2704808

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