The Writing Revolution : Cuneiform to the Internet

• Autore: Gnanadesikan Amalia E
• Pubblicazione: Newark : , : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, , 2025; ©2025
• Edizione: 2nd ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (407 pages)
• Disciplina: 411.09
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The writing revolution
• ISBN: 1-394-21822-2; 1-394-21820-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9911019855803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: The Language Library