The Shape of Script
How and Why Writing Systems Change
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This book builds on earlier projects about the origins and extinctions of script traditions throughout the world in an effort to address the fundamental questions of how and why writing systems change. The contributors--who study ancient scripts from Arabic to Roman, from Bronze Age China to Middle Kingdom Egypt--utilize an approach that views writing less as a technology than as a mode of communication, one that is socially learned and culturally transmitted.
Social Science / Anthropology
Language Arts & Disciplines / Alphabets & Writing Systems
Language Arts & Disciplines / Handwriting
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