As the first volume of a two-volume set on Chinese ancient characters and newly unearthed literature, this book brings together the authors research articles that discuss the development of Chinese characters and the tradition of Chinese paleography...Loe edasi...
As the second volume of a two-volume set on Chinese ancient characters and unearthed literature, this book brings together the authors scholarly works on Chinese scripts studies and unearthed materials....Loe edasi...
The present book collects 31 articles that Jacques van der Vliet, a leading scholar in the field of Coptic Studies (Leiden University / Radboud University, Nijmegen), has published since 1999 on Christian inscriptions from Egypt and Nubia. These ins...Loe edasi...
This Routledge Handbook provides a comprehensive account of the English Writing System, both in its current iteration and highlighting the developing trends that will influence its future....Loe edasi...
The Chinese Writing System in Asia: An Interdisciplinary Perspective integrates a diverse range of disciplinary approaches in examining how the Chinese script represents and actively shapes personal and social identities in and beyond Asia....Loe edasi...
This book is an exploratory adventure to defamiliarize calligraphy, especially Persian Nastaliq calligraphic letterforms, and to look beyond the tradition that has always considered calligraphy as pursuant to and subordinate to linguistic practices....Loe edasi...
Jannis K. Androutsopoulos, Mark Sebba, Alexandra Jaffe, Sally Johnson
Sari: Language and Social Processes [LSP]
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-Jun-2012, Kirjastus: Mouton de Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9781614511038)
This edited volume brings together leading authors in the field of sociolinguistics who explore the sociolinguistic implications of spelling, punctuation and other graphic aspects of writing....Loe edasi...
This is a handy reference to the main scripts and alphabets of the world. Forty alphabets are presented and discussed, with entries ranging from the mainstream, such as Amharic, Chinese and Thai, to the more obscure....Loe edasi...
Sari: Oxford Handbooks in Classics and Ancient History
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Nov-2011, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780191743597)
An authoritative guide to the Ancient Middle East as seen through the lens of cuneiform writing, the writing system of ancient Mesopotamia. Written by a team of international scholars, with chapter bibliographies and numerous illustrations, the Hand...Loe edasi...
Hannah M. Cotton, Naomi Schneider, Leah Di Segni, Werner Eck, Alla Kushnir-Stein, Haggai Misgav, Jonathan Price, Israel Roll, Ada Yardeni, Robert Daniel...
Sari: Corpus Inscriptionum Iudaeae/Palaestinae
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Apr-2011, Kirjastus: Walter de Gruyter & Co, ISBN-13: 9783110251906)
The first volume of the Corpus Inscriptionum Iudaeae/Palaestinae covers the inscriptions of Jerusalem from the time of Alexander to the Arab conquest in all the languages used for inscriptions during those times: Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek, Latin, Syria...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Oct-2008, Kirjastus: Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd), ISBN-13: 9781444304671)
In a world of rapid technological advancements, it can be easy to forget that writing is the original Information Technology, created to transcend the limitations of human memory and to defy time and space. The Writing Revolution picks apart the...Loe edasi...
Focus on the handwriting of scribes from late antiquity to the beginning of the sixteenth century, and identifies those features which are a scribes personal contribution to the techniques and art of handwriting. This book also looks at the signifi...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 17-Jun-2008, Kirjastus: Mouton de Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783110207859)
Presents a grammatical description of the Cameroonian Bantu language Eton, spoken just north of the capital Yaounde. This study provides an analysis of Etons sound structures and of the structure of words and clauses, both simple and complex, compl...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Apr-2008, Kirjastus: Mouton de Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783110207101)
Presents 12 papers on an approach to the analysis of writing systems. This volume introduces quantitative methods into this area of research. It gives an overview about quantitative properties of symbols and of writing systems, introduces methods of...Loe edasi...
This title discusses the mechanics of writing systems of English; the different ways people process words on a page and the mistakes they can make; how children and second language learners acquire these systems; the historical development of the la...Loe edasi...
Sari: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Jul-2002, Kirjastus: Mouton de Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783110885521)
The older runic inscriptions (ca. The extraordinary importance of these inscriptions for a proper understanding of the prehistory and early history of the present-day Germanic languages, including English, becomes abundantly clear once the accu-mula...Loe edasi...
As the study of manuscripts is fundamental to the appreciation of Anglo-Saxon texts and culture, this volume seeks to provide a collection of materials covering basic terms, techniques, resources, issues and applications....Loe edasi...
Sari: Untersuchungen zur indogermanischen Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaft. NF / Studies in Indo-European Language and Culture. New Series
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Mar-2000, Kirjastus: Walter de Gruyter & Co, ISBN-13: 9783110804201)
Recent discoveries have improved the decipherment and understanding of these inscriptions to a point where new and comprehensive translations can be offered, and the presentation of this in English will make them available for the first time to the...Loe edasi...
