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The Writing Revolution : Cuneiform to the Internet
| The Writing Revolution : Cuneiform to the Internet |
| Autore | Gnanadesikan Amalia E |
| Edizione | [2nd ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Newark : , : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, , 2025 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (407 pages) |
| Disciplina | 411.09 |
| Collana | The Language Library |
| ISBN |
1-394-21822-2
1-394-21820-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Chapter 1 The First IT Revolution -- Writing and Language -- Designing a Writing System -- Transliteration -- Chapter 2 Cuneiform: Forgotten Legacy of a Forgotten People -- Proto-cuneiform -- Sumerian Cuneiform -- Akkadian Adaptation -- Spread Beyond Mesopotamia: Elamite, Hurrian, Urartian, and Hittite -- Redesigns: Old Perian, Ugaritic -- Decipherment -- Chapter 3 Egyptian Hieroglyphs and the Quest for Eternity -- Hieroglyphs -- Hieroglyphs in Art and Religion -- Hieratic -- Demotic -- Death of a Tradition -- Coptic -- Decipherment -- Chapter 4 Chinese: A Love of Paperwork -- Basics of Chinese Characters -- Writing in Ancient and Early Imperial China -- Classifying and Defining Characters -- The Unifying Effect of Written Chinese -- The Invention and Spread of Paper -- From Classical to Modern Chinese -- Characters in Modern Times -- Spread Beyond Han China -- Chapter 5 Maya Glyphs: Calendars and Kings -- The Calendar -- History of the Maya Hieroglyphic Script -- Decipherment -- Basics of Maya Glyphs -- Chapter 6 Linear B: The Clerks ofAgamemnon -- Discovery -- Three Cretan Scripts and a Cypriot Script -- Initial Decipherment Attempts -- Michael Ventris' Decipherment -- Loss of Cretan Writing -- Chapter 7 Japanese: Three Scripts Are Better than One -- Chinese Characters in Japan -- Man'ygana and Senmygaki -- The Two Kana Syllabaries -- Mixing Kanji and Kana -- Word Processing in Japanese -- Chapter 8 Cherokee: Sequoyah Reverse-Engineers -- Sequoyah's Story -- The Cherokee Syllabary -- Sequoyah's Legacy in North America, Asia, and Africa -- Chapter 9 The Semitic lep-Bt: Egypt to Manchuria in 3,500 Years -- Egyptian Origins -- Canaanite, Ugaritic, Old South Arabian, and Ethiopic -- Phoenician, Punic, Old Hebrew, and Samaritan -- Aramaic -- Square Hebrew.
Palmyrene, Syriac, Nabataean, and Mandaic -- Parthian, Sogdian, Pahlavi, and Avestan -- Turkic, Uighur, Mongolian, and Manchu -- Arabic -- Chapter 10 The Empire of Sanskrit -- Ancient Indian Writing -- Writing with Aksharas -- The Age of Sanskrit -- Diversification and Spread -- Written Vernaculars -- Attitudes to Language and Script -- Chapter 11 King Sejong's One-ManRenaissance -- Sejong's Mission -- Han'gl Basics -- Han'gl's Reception -- Chapter 12 Greek Serendipity -- How the Alphabet Was Made -- Greek Literacy -- Post-Classical Developments -- Etruscan -- Gothic, Coptic, Armenian, and Georgian -- Glagolitic and Cyrillic -- Chapter 13 The Age of Latin -- The Early Latin Alphabet -- Fall and Fragmentation of the Western Empire -- The Carolingian Renaissance -- Old English Literacy -- Chapter 14 The Alphabet Meets the Machine -- Paper Comes to Europe -- Growing Demand -- The Moveable-Type Printing Press -- A New Information Age -- Adapting the Roman Alphabet in Europe -- Spread of the Roman Alphabet Beyond Europe -- Further Mechanization -- The Typewriter -- Chapter 15 Writing Goes to Bits -- Louis Braille's Binary System -- Samuel Morse's Telegraph and Code -- Later Encodings and Unicode -- Word Processing -- The Digital Divide -- Old and New Styles and Genres -- Dangers of Digital Text -- Appendix -- Further Reading -- Index -- EULA. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9911019855803321 |
Gnanadesikan Amalia E
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| Newark : , : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, , 2025 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The writing revolution [[electronic resource] ] : cuneiform to the Internet / / Amalia E. Gnanadesikan
| The writing revolution [[electronic resource] ] : cuneiform to the Internet / / Amalia E. Gnanadesikan |
| Autore | Gnanadesikan Amalia E |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chichester, U.K. ; ; Malden, MA, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (532 p.) |
| Disciplina | 411.09 |
| Collana | The language library |
| Soggetto topico |
Writing - History
Alphabet - History |
| ISBN |
1-4443-0467-4
9786612115882 1-4443-0468-2 1-282-11588-X 1-4443-5985-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | The first IT revolution -- Cuneiform: forgotten legacy of a forgotten people -- Egyptian hieroglyphs and the quest for eternity -- Chinese: a love of paperwork -- Maya glyphs: calendars of kings -- Linear B: the clerks of Agamemnon -- Japanese: three scripts are better than one -- Cherokee: Sequoyah reverse-engineers -- The Semitic alphabet: Egypt to Manchuria in 3,400 years -- The empire of Sanskrit -- King Sejong's one-man renaissance -- Greek serendipity -- The age of Latin -- The alphabet meets the machine. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910141341203321 |
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Gnanadesikan Amalia E
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| Chichester, U.K. ; ; Malden, MA, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||
The writing revolution : cuneiform to the Internet / / Amalia E. Gnanadesikan
| The writing revolution : cuneiform to the Internet / / Amalia E. Gnanadesikan |
| Autore | Gnanadesikan Amalia E |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chichester, U.K. ; ; Malden, MA, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (532 p.) |
| Disciplina | 411.09 |
| Collana | The language library |
| Soggetto topico |
Writing - History
Alphabet - History |
| ISBN |
9786612115882
9781444304671 1444304674 9781444304688 1444304682 9781282115880 128211588X 9781444359855 1444359851 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | The first IT revolution -- Cuneiform: forgotten legacy of a forgotten people -- Egyptian hieroglyphs and the quest for eternity -- Chinese: a love of paperwork -- Maya glyphs: calendars of kings -- Linear B: the clerks of Agamemnon -- Japanese: three scripts are better than one -- Cherokee: Sequoyah reverse-engineers -- The Semitic alphabet: Egypt to Manchuria in 3,400 years -- The empire of Sanskrit -- King Sejong's one-man renaissance -- Greek serendipity -- The age of Latin -- The alphabet meets the machine. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910815604203321 |
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Gnanadesikan Amalia E
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| Chichester, U.K. ; ; Malden, MA, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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