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AMALIA E. GNANADESIKAN teaches writing at Holy Family University, USA and has taught linguistics at West Chester and Rutgers universities. Her theoretical publications include works in phonology and language acquisition. Her column on language, "Postcards from Babel", appears in The Vocabula Review.
Preface xi
1 The First IT Revolution 1
2 Cuneiform: Forgotten Legacy of a Forgotten People 13
3 Egyptian Hieroglyphs and the Quest for Eternity 33
4 Chinese: A Love of Paperwork 56
5 Maya Glyphs: Calendars of Kings 79
6 Linear B: The Clerks of Agamemnon 95
7 Japanese: Three Scripts are Better than One 113
8 Cherokee: Sequoyah Reverse-Engineers 133
9 The Semitic Alphabet: Egypt to Manchuria in 3,400 Years 143
10 The Empire of Sanskrit 169
11 King Sejong's One-Man Renaissance 191
12 Greek Serendipity 208
13 The Age of Latin 229
14 The Alphabet Meets the Machine 249
Appendix: Figures A.1-A.7 273
Further Reading 281
Index 297
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2008 |
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Genre: | Importe |
Produktart: | Nachschlagewerke |
Rubrik: | Sachliteratur |
Thema: | Fremdsprachige Wörterbücher |
Medium: | Taschenbuch |
Inhalt: | 322 S. |
ISBN-13: | 9781405154079 |
ISBN-10: | 1405154071 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
Autor: | Gnanadesikan, Amalia E |
Hersteller: |
Wiley
John Wiley & Sons |
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Wiley-VCH GmbH, Boschstr. 12, D-69469 Weinheim, amartine@wiley-vch.de |
Maße: | 229 x 152 x 18 mm |
Von/Mit: | Amalia E Gnanadesikan |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 10.11.2008 |
Gewicht: | 0,482 kg |
AMALIA E. GNANADESIKAN teaches writing at Holy Family University, USA and has taught linguistics at West Chester and Rutgers universities. Her theoretical publications include works in phonology and language acquisition. Her column on language, "Postcards from Babel", appears in The Vocabula Review.
Preface xi
1 The First IT Revolution 1
2 Cuneiform: Forgotten Legacy of a Forgotten People 13
3 Egyptian Hieroglyphs and the Quest for Eternity 33
4 Chinese: A Love of Paperwork 56
5 Maya Glyphs: Calendars of Kings 79
6 Linear B: The Clerks of Agamemnon 95
7 Japanese: Three Scripts are Better than One 113
8 Cherokee: Sequoyah Reverse-Engineers 133
9 The Semitic Alphabet: Egypt to Manchuria in 3,400 Years 143
10 The Empire of Sanskrit 169
11 King Sejong's One-Man Renaissance 191
12 Greek Serendipity 208
13 The Age of Latin 229
14 The Alphabet Meets the Machine 249
Appendix: Figures A.1-A.7 273
Further Reading 281
Index 297
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2008 |
---|---|
Genre: | Importe |
Produktart: | Nachschlagewerke |
Rubrik: | Sachliteratur |
Thema: | Fremdsprachige Wörterbücher |
Medium: | Taschenbuch |
Inhalt: | 322 S. |
ISBN-13: | 9781405154079 |
ISBN-10: | 1405154071 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
Autor: | Gnanadesikan, Amalia E |
Hersteller: |
Wiley
John Wiley & Sons |
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Wiley-VCH GmbH, Boschstr. 12, D-69469 Weinheim, amartine@wiley-vch.de |
Maße: | 229 x 152 x 18 mm |
Von/Mit: | Amalia E Gnanadesikan |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 10.11.2008 |
Gewicht: | 0,482 kg |