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The idea of writing: play and complexity

The idea of writing: play and complexity
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ISBN 900417446X (hbk.)
9789004174467 (hbk.)
Title The idea of writing : play and complexity / edited by Alex de Voogt, Irving Finkel
Publisher Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010
Physical desc. [xi], 396 p. ; ill., maps, music ; 26 cm.
Bibliography etc. Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents Introducing writing on writing / Alex de Voogt -- Play in writing. Strange byways in cuneiform writing / Irving Finkel -- Scripts and shapes: the interplay of Chinese characters and Japanese syllabaries in early modern Japan / Margarita Winkel -- Substitution, substitution, substitution: the many faces of Maya writing / Erik Boot -- Loanwords. From group-writing to word association: representation and integration of foreign words in Egyptian script / Joachim Friedrich Quack --- What is being borrowed? language and script contact in Taiwan / Henning Klöter -- The adaptation of the cuneiform script to foreign languages / Wilfred H. van Soldt -- Loanwords, "foreign words," and foreign signs in Maya writing / Erik Boot -- On loans and additions to the Fidäl (Ethiopic) writing system / Azeb Amha -- Languages and scripts in the Maldive Islands: coding and encoding / Alex de Voogt -- Foreign terms in Sanskrit pertaining to writing / Harry Falk -- Polysemy. Reducing polyvalency in writing systems: from Egyptian to Meroitic / Claude Rilly -- Difficult hieroglyphs and unreadable Demotic? how the ancient Egyptians dealt with the complexities of their script / Joachim Friedrich Quack -- Maya writing: synonyms and homonyms, polyvalency and polysemy / Erik Boot -- In the interstices of representation: Ludic writing and the locus of polysemy in the Chinese sign / Wolfgang Behr -- Towards another script. Egyptian writing for non-Egyptian languages and vice-versa: a short overview / Joachim Friedrich Quack -- The Caroline Islands script: a linguistic confrontation / Alex de Voogt -- The interaction of syllabic and alphabetic cuneiform writing in Ugarit / Wilfred H. van Soldt -- Writing dance / Joukje Kolff.
Subject Writing -- History
Written communication -- History
Authorship -- History
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