Alphabet year / / Devon Miller-Duggan |
Autore | Miller-Duggan Devon |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Eugene, Oregon : , : Resource Publications, , 2017 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (88 pages) |
Disciplina | 411 |
Soggetto topico |
Alphabet
Alphabet - History |
ISBN | 1-5326-0309-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910162805503321 |
Miller-Duggan Devon | ||
Eugene, Oregon : , : Resource Publications, , 2017 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Writing : theory and history of the technology of civilization / / Barry B. Powell |
Autore | Powell Barry B |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chichester, U.K. ; ; Malden, Mass., : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (298 p.) |
Disciplina | 411.09 |
Soggetto topico |
Writing - History
Alphabet - History Writing - Social aspects |
ISBN |
1-283-45402-5
9786613454027 1-118-29348-7 1-118-29351-7 1-118-29350-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction : a difficult topic, little studied, poorly understood -- What is writing? -- Writing with signs -- Categories and features of writing -- Some general issues in the study of writing -- Protocuneiform and counting tokens -- Origins of lexigraphic writing in Mesopotamia -- Plato's Ideas and Champollion's decipherment of the Egyptian hieroglyphs -- Egyptian writing and Egyptian speech -- The origin and nature of Egyptian writing -- "The house of life" : scribes and writing in ancient Egypt -- Syllabic scripts of the Aegean -- The West Semitic revolution -- What kind of writing was West Semitic? -- The origins of West Semitic writing -- Chinese logography -- Lexigraphic writing in Mesoamerica -- The Greek alphabet : a writing that changed the world -- Summary and conclusions. |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996441550803316 |
Powell Barry B | ||
Chichester, U.K. ; ; Malden, Mass., : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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Writing : theory and history of the technology of civilization / / Barry B. Powell |
Autore | Powell Barry B |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chichester, U.K. ; ; Malden, Mass., : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (298 p.) |
Disciplina | 411.09 |
Soggetto topico |
Writing - History
Alphabet - History Writing - Social aspects |
ISBN |
1-283-45402-5
9786613454027 1-118-29348-7 1-118-29351-7 1-118-29350-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction : a difficult topic, little studied, poorly understood -- What is writing? -- Writing with signs -- Categories and features of writing -- Some general issues in the study of writing -- Protocuneiform and counting tokens -- Origins of lexigraphic writing in Mesopotamia -- Plato's Ideas and Champollion's decipherment of the Egyptian hieroglyphs -- Egyptian writing and Egyptian speech -- The origin and nature of Egyptian writing -- "The house of life" : scribes and writing in ancient Egypt -- Syllabic scripts of the Aegean -- The West Semitic revolution -- What kind of writing was West Semitic? -- The origins of West Semitic writing -- Chinese logography -- Lexigraphic writing in Mesoamerica -- The Greek alphabet : a writing that changed the world -- Summary and conclusions. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910139692303321 |
Powell Barry B | ||
Chichester, U.K. ; ; Malden, Mass., : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Writing : theory and history of the technology of civilization / / Barry B. Powell |
Autore | Powell Barry B |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chichester, U.K. ; ; Malden, Mass., : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (298 p.) |
Disciplina | 411.09 |
Soggetto topico |
Writing - History
Alphabet - History Writing - Social aspects |
ISBN |
1-283-45402-5
9786613454027 1-118-29348-7 1-118-29351-7 1-118-29350-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction : a difficult topic, little studied, poorly understood -- What is writing? -- Writing with signs -- Categories and features of writing -- Some general issues in the study of writing -- Protocuneiform and counting tokens -- Origins of lexigraphic writing in Mesopotamia -- Plato's Ideas and Champollion's decipherment of the Egyptian hieroglyphs -- Egyptian writing and Egyptian speech -- The origin and nature of Egyptian writing -- "The house of life" : scribes and writing in ancient Egypt -- Syllabic scripts of the Aegean -- The West Semitic revolution -- What kind of writing was West Semitic? -- The origins of West Semitic writing -- Chinese logography -- Lexigraphic writing in Mesoamerica -- The Greek alphabet : a writing that changed the world -- Summary and conclusions. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910831046103321 |
Powell Barry B | ||
Chichester, U.K. ; ; Malden, Mass., : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Writing : theory and history of the technology of civilization / / Barry B. Powell |
Autore | Powell Barry B |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chichester, U.K. ; ; Malden, Mass., : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (298 p.) |
Disciplina | 411.09 |
Soggetto topico |
Writing - History
Alphabet - History Writing - Social aspects |
ISBN |
1-283-45402-5
9786613454027 1-118-29348-7 1-118-29351-7 1-118-29350-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction : a difficult topic, little studied, poorly understood -- What is writing? -- Writing with signs -- Categories and features of writing -- Some general issues in the study of writing -- Protocuneiform and counting tokens -- Origins of lexigraphic writing in Mesopotamia -- Plato's Ideas and Champollion's decipherment of the Egyptian hieroglyphs -- Egyptian writing and Egyptian speech -- The origin and nature of Egyptian writing -- "The house of life" : scribes and writing in ancient Egypt -- Syllabic scripts of the Aegean -- The West Semitic revolution -- What kind of writing was West Semitic? -- The origins of West Semitic writing -- Chinese logography -- Lexigraphic writing in Mesoamerica -- The Greek alphabet : a writing that changed the world -- Summary and conclusions. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910878082303321 |
Powell Barry B | ||
Chichester, U.K. ; ; Malden, Mass., : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009 | ||
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 |
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 |
Gnanadesikan Amalia E | ||
Chichester, U.K. ; ; Malden, MA, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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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 |
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-9910815604203321 |
Gnanadesikan Amalia E | ||
Chichester, U.K. ; ; Malden, MA, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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