The Idea of Writing ：Writing Across Borders ( 1 )

Publication subTitle ：Writing Across Borders

Publication series ：1

Author： Voogt   Alex de;Quack   Joachim Friedrich  

Publisher： Brill‎

Publication year： 2011

E-ISBN: 9789004217003

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9789004215450

P-ISBN(Hardback):  9789004215450

Subject： H05 Writing and Rhetoric

Keyword： 语言学

Language： ENG

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Description

This exploration of the versatility of writing systems highlights their complexity when used for more than one language. The approaches of authors from different academic traditions provide a varied and expert account.

Chapter

Contents

Acknowledgements

Invention and Borrowing in the Development and Dispersal of Writing Systems

27–30–22–26 – How Many Letters Needs an Alphabet? The Case of Semitic

Nubian Graffiti Messages and the History of Writing in the Sudanese Nile Basin

About “Short” Names of Letters

Early Adaptations of the Korean Script to Render Foreign Languages

Han’gŭl Reform Movement in the Twentieth Century: Roman Pressure on Korean Writing

The Character of the Indian Kharosthī Script and the “Sanskrit Revolution”: A Writing System Between Identity and Assimilation

Symmetry and Asymmetry, Chinese Writing in Japan: The Case of Kojiki (712)

Writing Semitic with Cuneiform Script. The Interaction of Sumerian and Akkadian Orthography in the Second Half of the Third Millennium BC

Old Wine in New Wineskins? How to Write Classical Egyptian Rituals in More Modern Writing Systems

Subject Index

Language (Group) and Script Index

Author Index

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