Grapholinguistics, the multifaceted study of writing systems, is growing increasingly popular, yet to date no coherent account covering and connecting its major

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

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During its long history the problem of reducing language to writing, and conversely that of interpreting written signs as language, has found a variety of solut

Ranging from cuneiform to shorthand, from archaic Greek to modern Chinese, from Old Persian to modern Cherokee, this is the only available work in English to co