The Writing Systems of the World by Coulmas, Florian

The Writing Systems of the World (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780631180289)

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The Writing Systems of the World by Coulmas, Florian

The Writing Systems of the World

$65.95
The Writing Systems of the World by Coulmas, Florian

The Writing Systems of the World

$65.95
Format: Paperback
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This book is an account of the writing systems of the world from earliest times to the present. Its aim is to explore the complex ways in which writing systems relate to the language they depict. Writing, Coulmas contends, is not only the guide or garment of spoken language, but has a deep and lasting effect on the development of language itself.

His study takes in Egyptian hieroglyphics and the cuneiform system of the ancient Near East; he describes Chinese writing, discussing why an apparently cumbersome system has been used continuously for more than 3,000 years; he ranges across the writing systems of western Asia and the Middle East, the Indian families and the various alphabetic traditions which had its origins in the multifarious world of Semitic writing and came to full bloom in pre-Classical Greece.

Author: Florian Coulmas
ISBN-10: 0631180281
ISBN-13: 9780631180289
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Language: English
Published: 01/08/1991
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.01h x 6.01w x 0.96d
By Florian Coulmas
By Florian Coulmas
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Florian Coulmas is Professor of Linguistics at Chuo University, Tokyo. He has written and edited several books in Linguistics and Sociolinguistics and is associate editor of the International Journal of the Sociology of Language.

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