Please note: In order to keep Hive up to date and provide users with the best features, we are no longer able to fully support Internet Explorer. The site is still available to you, however some sections of the site may appear broken. We would encourage you to move to a more modern browser like Firefox, Edge or Chrome in order to experience the site fully.

Supporting your high street Find out how »
The Writing Systems of the World, Paperback / softback Book

The Writing Systems of the World Paperback / softback

Part of the The Language Library series

Paperback / softback

Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks

Description

This book is an account of the writing systems of the world from earliest times to the present.

Its aim is to explore the complex ways in which writing systems relate to the language they depict.

Writing, Coulmas contends, is not only the guide or garment of spoken language, but has a deep and lasting effect on the development of language itself. His study takes in Egyptian hieroglyphics and the cuneiform system of the ancient Near East; he describes Chinese writing, discussing why an apparently cumbersome system has been used continuously for more than 3,000 years; he ranges across the writing systems of western Asia and the Middle East, the Indian families and the various alphabetic traditions which had its origins in the multifarious world of Semitic writing and came to full bloom in pre-Classical Greece.

Information

Save 8%

£49.95

£45.75

Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
Add to Basket
Sign in to add to wishlist
 
Free Home Delivery

on all orders

 
Pick up orders

from local bookshops

Information

Also in the The Language Library series  |  View all

An Introduction To American English

£36.95

£36.05

Add to Basket

Dying Words

£28.95

£28.09

Add to Basket

The Writing Revolution

£32.95

Add to Basket

Words of Wonder

£33.95

£33.85

Add to Basket