Henry Rogers

Writing Systems

A Linguistic Approach

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Accessibly written, Writing Systems: A Linguistic Approach provides detailed coverage of all major writing systems of historical or structural significance with thorough discussion of structure, history, and social context as well as important theoretical issues. The book examines systems as diverse as Chinese, Greek, and Maya and each writing system is presented in the light of four major aspects of writing: history and development; internal structure; the relationship of writing and language; and sociolinguistic factors. The volume is extensively illustrated and the glossary of technical terms, exercises, and further reading suggestions that accompany each chapter make Writing Systems a valuable resource for students in linguistics and anthropology.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Open Stax Textbooks
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juli 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 251mm x 176mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 753g
• ISBN-13: 9780631234630
• ISBN-10: 0631234632
• Artikelnr.: 20955056

Autorenporträt

Henry Rogers is Professor in the Departments of Linguistics and Anthropology at the University of Toronto. He is author of Sounds of Language: An Introduction to Phonetics (2000) and Theoretical and Practical Phonetics (1990), and has published widely on both phonetics and writing systems.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction.

2. Theoretical Preliminaries.

3. Chinese.

4. Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese.

5. Cuneiform.

6. Egyptian.

7. Semitic.

8. The Greek Alphabet.

9. The Roman Alphabet.

10. English.

11. The Indian Abugida And Other Asian Phonographic Writing.

12. Maya.

13. Other Writing Systems.

14. Classification Of Writing Systems.

Appendix A: Some Basic Linguistic Notions.

Appendix B: The International Phonetic Alphabet.

Appendix C. English Transcription.

Appendix D: Glossary.

Bibliography

Rezensionen

"The author and publishers can be congratulated on an excellentwork; if I were teaching a class on writing systems now, this wouldbe my first choice as a textbook."
--William Bright, review in Written Language and Literacy

"This is an excellent comprehensive textbook for universitycourses on writing systems (grammatology), with enough preliminaryremarks of a theoretical nature to enable the student to master thescripts from around the world, including cuneiform of varioustypes, Semitic, Greek, Roman, etc. It is written in a clear stylewith a very good glossary and up-to-date bibliography."
--Alan S. Kaye, California State University, Fullerton