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  • Literacy and Divergence

    The Invention of Writing and Reading

    de Mark Dressman, Dingxin Rao ...
    Series series Global Perspectives on Literacy
    This book presents a pioneering exploration of literacy, integrating multidisciplinary perspectives into a framework that conceptualizes literacy as an interaction among technologies, codes, purposes, and practices within and across cultural and historical contexts.The volume traces the global emergence of writing and reading systems across five regions: East Asia (encompassing China, Korea, Japan ... Leer más

    $61.99 USD

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  • Babel

    Around the World in Twenty Languages

    de Gaston Dorren ...
    " Babel is an endlessly interesting book, and you don't have to have any linguistic training to enjoy it . . . it's just so much fun to read." —NPREnglish is the world language, except that 80 percent of the world doesn't speak it. Linguist Gaston Dorren calculates that to speak fluently with half of the world's people in their mother tongues, you'd need to know no fewer than twenty languages. In ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Writing and Script

    A Very Short Introduction

    de Andrew Robinson ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Without writing, there would be no records, no history, no books, and no emails. Writing is an integral and essential part of our lives; but when did it start? Why do we all write differently and how did writing develop into what we use today? All of these questions are answered in this Very Short Introduction. Starting with the origins of writing five thousand years ago, with cuneiform and ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • Violent Phenomena

    Essays Toward the Future of Literary Translation

    de Kavita Bhanot, Jeremy Tiang ...
    “These essays, deftly blending the political and the personal, offer fresh, galvanizing, and passionate perspectives on literary translation.”—Jhumpa LahiriA manifesto in 22 essays, Violent Phenomena breaks stale rules about who can and should translate, envisioning a future more reflective of the beautiful polyphony of literature in all languages.?What would it take to unlearn centuries of ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

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  • A History of Writing

    de Steven Roger Fischer ...
    Series series Globalities
    From the earliest scratches on stone and bone to the languages of computers and the internet, A History of Writing offers an investigation into the origin and development of writing throughout the world. Illustrated with numerous examples, this book offers a global overview in a form that everyone can follow. The author also reveals his own discoveries made since the early 1980s, making it a ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • The Babel Message

    A Love Letter to Language

    de Keith Kahn-Harris ...
    'Quite simply, and quite ridiculously, one of the funniest and most illuminating books I have ever read. I thought I was obsessive, but Keith Kahn-Harris is playing a very different sport. He really has discovered the whole world in an egg.' Simon GarfieldA thrilling journey deep into the heart of language, from a rather unexpected starting point.Keith Kahn-Harris is a man obsessed with something ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Dying Words

    Endangered Languages and What They Have to Tell Us

    de Nicholas Evans ...
    Series Libro 22 - The Language Library
    The next century will see more than half of the world’s 6,000 languages become extinct, and most of these will disappear without being adequately recorded. Written by one of the leading figures in language documentation, this fascinating book explores what humanity stands to lose as a result.Explores the unique philosophy, knowledge, and cultural assumptions of languages, and their impact on our ... Leer más

    $42.00 USD

  • The Way of the Gods

    Polytheism(s) Around the World

    de Edward P. Butler ...
    Polytheisms may well be the world’s most undervalued cultural resource. From the dawn of history until quite recently, the default religious orientation on the planet was to recognize an open-ended plurality of unique divinities that manifest in every realm of natural and social life. By hosting a plurality of Gods, polytheistic civilizations exhibit maximum diversity in maximum solidarity each ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD

  • Languages of the World

    An Introduction

    de Asya Pereltsvaig ...
    Are you curious to know what all human languages have in common and in what ways they differ? Do you want to find out how language can be used to trace different peoples and their past? Then this book is for you! Now in its third edition, it guides beginners through the rich diversity of the world's languages. It presupposes no background in linguistics, and introduces the reader to linguistic ... Leer más

    $32.99 USD

  • An Atlas of Endangered Alphabets

    Writing Systems on the Verge of Vanishing

    de Tim Brookes ...
    A global exploration of the many writing systems that are on the verge of vanishing, and the stories and cultures they carry with them.If something is important, we write it down. Yet 85% of the world's writing systems are on the verge of vanishing - not granted official status, not taught in schools, discouraged and dismissed.When a culture is forced to abandon its traditional script, everything ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD

  • Writing

    Theory and History of the Technology of Civilization

    de Barry B. Powell ...
    Writing: Theory and History of the Technology of Civilization traces the origins of writing tied to speech from ancient Sumer through the Greek alphabet and beyond.Examines the earliest evidence for writing in Mesopotamia in the fourth millennium BC, the origins of purely phonographic systems, and the mystery of alphabetic writingIncludes discussions of Ancient Egyptian,Chinese, and Mayan ... Leer más

    $35.00 USD

  • The Writing Revolution

    Cuneiform to the Internet

    de Amalia E. Gnanadesikan ...
    Series Libro 25 - The Language Library
    In a world of rapid technological advancements, it can be easy to forget that writing is the original Information Technology, created to transcend the limitations of human memory and to defy time and space. The Writing Revolution picks apart the development of this communication tool to show how it has conquered the world.Explores how writing has liberated the world, making possible everything ... Leer más

    $106.00 USD