Hidden Language of Graphic Signs (eBook, ePUB)

Cryptic Writing and Meaningful Marks
Redaktion: Bodel, John

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A common belief is that systems of writing are committed to transparency and precise records of sound. The target is the language behind such marks. Readers, not viewers, matter most, and the most effective graphs largely record sound, not meaning. But what if embellishments mattered deeply - if hidden writing, slow to produce, slow to read, played as enduring a role as more accessible graphs? What if meaningful marks did service alongside records of spoken language? This book, a compilation of essays by global authorities on these subjects, zeroes in on hidden writing and alternative systems of graphic notation. Essays by leading scholars explore forms of writing that, by their formal intricacy, deflect attention from language. The volume also examines graphs that target meaning directly, without passing through the filter of words and the medium of sound. The many examples here testify to human ingenuity and future possibilities for exploring enriched graphic communication.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108892889
• Artikelnr.: 66183827

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Hidden Writing: 1. Buried and Camouflaged Writing in Early China
Haicheng Wang; 2. Dazzled and Absorbed: Delayed Reading in Altered Egyptian
Hieroglyphic Writing Andréas Stauder; 3. Impossible Unities: Full-Figure
Glyphs among the Maya Stephen Houston; 4. Inscribe and De-scribe/Cipher and
De-cipher: A Pious Phrase in Medieval Byzantium and Islam Scott Redford; 5.
Script, Pseudoscript, and Pseudo-pseudoscript in the Work of Filippo Lippi
Benjamin C. Tilghman; 6. Numerals as Letters: Ludic Language in
Chronographic Writing Stephen Chrisomalis; Part II. Legible Signs: 7.
Marking and Writing in an Egyptian Workmen's Community Ben Haring; 8. The
Semiotics of Signa and the Significance of Signs in Roman Stamps John
Bodel; 9. Late Antique and Early Medieval Monograms (c. 300¿900): From
Producers' Marks to Liminal Graphic Devices Ildar Garipzanov; 10. Crests
and Familial Identity in Medieval Japan David Spafford; 11. Where Credit's
Due: Making Marks and Counting Labor in the Andes Howard Tsai; 12. From
Modeling to Destruction: Cyclicity and Multi-Sensoriality in Learning
Catechisms in the Bolivian Highlands Bérénice Gaillemin.