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The cultures of the world have chosen different ways to make spoken language visible and permanent. The original edition of Writing Systems represented the first time that modern linguistic principles were brought to bear on a study of this. Now this new edition brings the story up to date; it incorporates topics which have emerged since the first edition (such as electronic techniques for encoding the world's scripts), together with new findings about established topics, including the ultimate historical origin of our alphabet. Featuring a series of detailed case studies of scripts of diverse types, and giving due attention to the psychology of reading and learning to read, the book is written so as to be accessible to those with no prior knowledge of any writing systems other than our own.
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This is a splendid book ... of outstanding interest to professional linguists and students of linguistics, and also to the large number of lay readers who are fascinated by facts about human language. --British Book News
A refreshing and rigorous contemporary scientific examination of writing ... Linguists on all fronts should welcome this. --Choice
The best linguistic introduction to the study of writing systems now available. --Language
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- PublisherEquinox Publishing Ltd
- Publication date2015
- ISBN 10 178179104X
- ISBN 13 9781781791042
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number2
- Number of pages294
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