Exploring writing systems and practices in the Bronze Age Aegean
Writing does not begin and end with the encoding of an idea into a group of symbols. It is practiced by people who have learnt its principles and acquired the tools and skills for doing it, in a particular context that affects what they do and how they do it. Nor are these practices static, as those...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Havertown :
Oxbow Books, Limited
2023.
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| Series: | Contexts of and Relations Between Early Writing Systems (CREWS) Series
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009786714606719 |
Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Front Cover
- Half-Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of tables and figures
- Introduction
- Cretan Hieroglyphic, Linear A and Linear B (and their Cypriot cousins)
- Chronology
- Theoretical perspectives and terminology
- 1. Exploring script adoption
- How do we know that Linear B adopted Linear A syllabographic sign values with little change?
- Can we use Linear B sign values or structural features to reconstruct Minoan phonology or other linguistic features?
- How should we understand the nature of the transition from Linear A to Linear B?
- 2. Exploring logography
- Classifying signs in writing systems
- Linear B
- Linear A
- Cretan Hieroglyphic
- Understanding logography in the Bronze Age Aegean
- 3. Exploring vitality
- Cretan Hieroglyphic
- Linear A
- Linear B
- Syllabic writing in Cyprus
- Relationships between writing and language vitality
- The vitality of writing traditions
- Epilogue: writing for the future
- Bibliography.
