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Gnanadesikan concurs with the usual view that the complex calendrical system of the Maya's predecessors, the Olmec, was ‘the intellectual stimulus' (80) for the development of writing in Mesoamerica, which she discusses in Ch. 5, ‘Maya glyphs: Calendars of kings'.\" (Language, 2011)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This informative, yet accessible and entertaining, book will be of interest to readers with an interest in the history and evolution of world languages, as well as to students and instructors looking for a comprehensive and enjoyable overview of the subject..\" (\u003ci\u003eLanguage in Society\u003c\/i\u003e, 14 December 2009)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations vii  \u003cp\u003ePreface xi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 The First IT Revolution 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Cuneiform: Forgotten Legacy of a Forgotten People 13\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Egyptian Hieroglyphs and the Quest for Eternity 33\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Chinese: A Love of Paperwork 56\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Maya Glyphs: Calendars of Kings 79\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Linear B: The Clerks of Agamemnon 95\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Japanese: Three Scripts are Better than One 113\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Cherokee: Sequoyah Reverse-Engineers 133\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 The Semitic Alphabet: Egypt to Manchuria in 3,400 Years 143\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 The Empire of Sanskrit 169\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 King Sejong’s One-Man Renaissance 191\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Greek Serendipity 208\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 The Age of Latin 229\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 The Alphabet Meets the Machine 249\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix: Figures A.1–A.7 273\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFurther Reading 281\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 297\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49371875049815,"sku":"9781405154079","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}]},{"product_id":"b-is-for-bacon-9781792346323","title":"B is for Bacon","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Flipfrog Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49372527362391,"sku":"9781792346323","price":11.24,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781792346323.jpg?v=1730163311"},{"product_id":"grapheme-chart-for-year-1-9780008506094","title":"Grapheme Chart for Year 1","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBig Cat Phonics for Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised has been developed in collaboration with Wandle Learning Trust and Little Sutton Primary School. 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Using his early thought and the psychoanalytic texts to which it is addressed to examine the print culture of early modern England, she drastically unsettles our knowledge of the key vehicle of modern writing: the book. Fleming shows that the single most important lesson to survive from Derrida's early work is that we do not know what writing is. 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Millions learn the alphabet in childhood, and Drucker's study opens up a fascinating realm of ideas and scholarship into its origins and meaning.\" * BBC History Magazine *\u003cbr\u003e\"In its wealth of detail and generous illustration [\u003ci\u003eInventing the Alphabet\u003c\/i\u003e] goes some way toward reproducing the experience of reading the catalogs and compendia it describes.\" * New York Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003e\"Drucker takes us on a journey through centuries of intellectual history, from the musings of the first historians to the scientific methods of modern archaeologists and linguists. At the heart of it all is the alphabet: an invention that is both ubiquitously banal and world-changingly innovative.\" * History Today *\u003cbr\u003e\"This latest book by Drucker is not primarily a new history of the alphabet, although it provides this history, but a historiographical work that traces the ways beliefs in Western thought shaped the discourse around the alphabet’s origins. The author asks who knew what when and how people conceptualized the evidence available to them, from the earliest classical and biblical accounts to contemporary archaeological, epigraphical, and paleographical syntheses. . . Highly recommended.\" * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\"Johanna Drucker​ ’s \u003ci\u003eInventing the Alphabet\u003c\/i\u003e is all about writing’s material histories.\" * London Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003e\"For ill and for good, our world remains profoundly alphabetized, from classroom rosters, to bureaucratic systems, to the labeling of our very genetic essence, even if random access, not ABC order, has become our everyday search mode. As Drucker somewhat shockingly reminds us. . . the ancient analog alphabet forms the substrate of our digital world.\" * Critical Inquiry *\u003cbr\u003e\"Stunning. . . . Drucker deserves our full recognition for this masterpiece of bibliographical scholarship.\" * Publishing Research Quarterly *\u003cbr\u003e“With \u003ci\u003eInventing the Alphabet\u003c\/i\u003e, Drucker—scholar, interpreter, and designer of printed words and letters—sheds light on that which has brought humankind out of darkness.\" -- Steven Heller, author, design critic, and cochair of the SVA MFA Design Department\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction  1. When Did the Alphabet Become \"Greek\"?  2. Divine Gifts: Original Letters, Moses, and the Tablets at Mount Sinai  3. Medieval Copyists: Magical Letters, Mythic Scripts, and Exotic Alphabets  4. The Confusion of Tongues and Compendia of Scripts  5. Antiquity Explained: The Origin and Progress of Letters  6. The Rhetoric of Tables and the Harmony of Alphabets  7. Modern Archaeology: Putting the Evidence of the Alphabet in Place  8. Reading the Early Alphabet: Epigraphy and Paleography  9. Alphabet Effects and the Politics of Script  Coda: Alphabetic Agency and Global Hegemony  Notes  Selected Bibliography  Index","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400125620567,"sku":"9780226815817","price":30.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780226815817.jpg?v=1730469809"},{"product_id":"the-korean-vernacular-story-9780231195423","title":"The Korean Vernacular Story","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSi Nae Park examines how the culture of Chosŏn Seoul gave rise to a new vernacular literary form (\u003ci\u003eyadam\u003c\/i\u003e), anonymously and unofficially circulating tales. She focuses on the collection \u003ci\u003eRepeatedly Recited Stories of the East\u003c\/i\u003e, which was written in a new medium in which Literary Sinitic is hybridized with the vernacular realities of Chosŏn society.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePark’s research into No’s linguistic-literary experimentation opens a new path for understanding the multilayered diglossia in Chosŏn literature. It also helps us reflect on issues in Korea today, such as Seoul-centrism, social mobility, and wealth and status. I feel that this, the first monographic work on \u003ci\u003eyadam \u003c\/i\u003ein a Western language, will appeal not only to specialists of premodern Korea, but to a wide range of readers as well. -- Jeongsoo Shin * Journal of Asian Studies *\u003cbr\u003eSi Nae Park’s \u003ci\u003eThe Korean Vernacular Story: Telling Tales of Contemporary Choson in Sinographic Writing\u003c\/i\u003e offers a new look at the intriguing classical literary genre of \u003ci\u003eyadam\u003c\/i\u003e. Her thorough study of the late eighteenth-century collection known as \u003ci\u003eDongpae naksong\u003c\/i\u003e, or \u003ci\u003eRepeatedly Recited Stories of the East\u003c\/i\u003e, compiled by No Myeongheum, casts light on the formation and significance of the \u003ci\u003eyadam\u003c\/i\u003e genre in the literary history of the Joseon period. -- Charles La Shure * Seoul Journal of Korean Studies *\u003cbr\u003e[An] impressively-researched book . . . \u003ci\u003eThe Korean Vernacular Story\u003c\/i\u003e will not only appeal to scholars (there is much here that is analytical and scholarly) but to anyone interested in finding out about Asian writing which is not Chinese or Japanese. * Asian Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Korean Vernacular Story\u003c\/i\u003e, Park unfurls a sparkling canvas of eighteenth-century Chosŏn Korea, where new forms of the written vernacular, social mobility, literary sociability—both Seoul- and Beijing-centered metageographies—and vernacular temporalities intersect. A remarkable intervention in Korean studies with crucial implications for the study of East Asia’s Sinographic literatures. -- Wiebke Denecke, author of \u003ci\u003eClassical World Literatures: Sino-Japanese and Greco-Roman Comparisons\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe major project in Korean cultural history is to recapture Korea’s hidden vernacular past in the forest of “Chinese” writing by Koreans. Si Nae Park’s reading of the hitherto neglected \u003ci\u003eyadam\u003c\/i\u003e genre does exactly this, bringing these voices from Chosŏn Korea to life in their original earthy splendor. -- John Whitman, author of \u003ci\u003eKorean: A Linguistic Introduction\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this valuable study of \u003ci\u003eyadam\u003c\/i\u003e, Si Nae Park deftly handles the tensions between the oral and contemporary origins of the tales and the Sinitic script in which they are inscribed. Park has made a subtle, significant, and lasting contribution to an emerging but important field—the study of vernacularization in East Asia. -- Peter Kornicki, University of Cambridge\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Korean Vernacular Story\u003c\/i\u003e is a meticulous and compelling reassessment of the emergence of \u003ci\u003eyadam\u003c\/i\u003e, elaborated through No Myŏnghŭm’s compilation of real-world stories in highly vernacularized Sinitic. This insightful study demonstrates how premodern Korea, its culture increasing influenced by women, came to appreciate and readily circulate stories about itself. -- Sunglim Kim, author of \u003ci\u003eFlowering Plums and Curio Cabinets:The Culture of Objects in Late Chosŏn Korean Art\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe first full-length examination of the \u003ci\u003eyadam \u003c\/i\u003egenre, \u003ci\u003eThe Korean Vernacular Story\u003c\/i\u003e examines the literary and social milieu in late Chosŏn Seoul. Using meticulous research, Park forms arguments that will certainly serve as the foundation for further research. -- Michael J. Pettid, coeditor of \u003ci\u003ePremodern Korean Literary Prose\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA rethinking of vernacularity in late Chosŏn, free from modernist assumptions about the relationship between language and text. -- Sixiang Wang * Journal of Korean Studies *\u003cbr\u003ePark’s achievement does not lie merely in her nuanced historicization of the rise of the literary vernacular in eighteenth-century Chosŏn Korea. Her book also powerfully foregrounds the intricacy of the cosmopolitan-vernacular dynamics in a larger sinographic world. . . This is a must-read book for anyone who is interested in Chosŏn literary history and manuscript culture, early modern East Asian literature, and literary Sinitic and local vernaculars in the sinographic world. -- Suyoung Son * Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Korean Vernacular Story\u003c\/i\u003e is indispensable for all scholars dealing with questions of Korean language, literature, or pre-modern societal structures. Furthermore, this book about the telling of stories is itself a wonderful story and, in fact, a delightful read. -- Vladimir Glomb * Acta Koreana *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eA Note to the Reader\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e1. The Compiler: A Marginalized \u003ci\u003eYangban\u003c\/i\u003e at the Center of the Chosŏn Cultural Scene\u003cbr\u003e2. The Narrative World: A Window Into the Zeitgeist of Contemporary Chosŏn at Large\u003cbr\u003e3. The Language: Articulating in the Language of the Here and Now\u003cbr\u003e4. The Text in Motion: The Circulation of the \u003ci\u003eTongp’ae naksong\u003c\/i\u003e and the Rise of \u003ci\u003eYadam\u003c\/i\u003e in the Chosŏn Manuscript Context\u003cbr\u003eCoda\u003cbr\u003eAppendix A: The Original Text and Translation of “The Biography of No, the Clumsy Old Man”\u003cbr\u003eAppendix B: A Translation of “The Story of a Slave Girl from Chirye”\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400348279127,"sku":"9780231195423","price":46.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780231195423.jpg?v=1730470456"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/collections\/writing-systems-alphabets-scripts.oembed?page=5","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}