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The Origin of Writing - Couverture rigide

Harris, Professor Roy

 
9780715620748: The Origin of Writing
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0715620746 ISBN 13 : 9780715620748
Editeur : Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd, 1986

Synopsis

166p hardback, excellent grey unclipped dustjacket, a few faint pencil markings to margins, otherwise as new

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Présentation de l'éditeur

How did Homo sapiens become Homo scribens? Was writing originally an attempt to represent speech? Did it evolve from prehistoric art? What types of sign were the precursors of the alphabet and the hieroglyph? This book proposes a new approach to an age-old complex of problems, and offers some iconoclastic solutions. Surveying present-day attempts to explain what might have set our ancestors on the road to writing, it exposes the weaknesses of current theories and shows how the mystery surrounding that first step across the threshold of literacy is generated by projecting back modern assumptions into prehistoric times. But this is not essentially a book about the distant past. Its conclusions are equally relevant to contemporary concepts of cultural evolution and contemporary debates about the basic tenets of linguistics.

Biographie de l'auteur

Roy Harris is Emeritus Professor of General Linguistics at the University of Oxford, UK.

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Éditeur
Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd
Date d'édition
1986
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0715620746
ISBN 13 
9780715620748
Reliure
Relié
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
166
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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