Hidden Language of Graphic Signs (eBook, PDF)

Cryptic Writing and Meaningful Marks
Redaktion: Bodel, John; Houston, Stephen

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book zeroes in on hidden writing and alternative systems of graphic notation, exploring writings that deflect attention from language.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. August 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108882651
• Artikelnr.: 70908476

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Hidden Writing: 1. Buried and Camouflaged Writing in Early China
Haicheng Wang; 2. Dazzled and Absorbed: Delayed Reading in Altered Egyptian
Hieroglyphic Writing Andréas Stauder; 3. Impossible Unities: Full-Figure
Glyphs among the Maya Stephen Houston; 4. Inscribe and De-scribe/Cipher and
De-cipher: A Pious Phrase in Medieval Byzantium and Islam Scott Redford; 5.
Script, Pseudoscript, and Pseudo-pseudoscript in the Work of Filippo Lippi
Benjamin C. Tilghman; 6. Numerals as Letters: Ludic Language in
Chronographic Writing Stephen Chrisomalis; Part II. Legible Signs: 7.
Marking and Writing in an Egyptian Workmen's Community Ben Haring; 8. The
Semiotics of Signa and the Significance of Signs in Roman Stamps John
Bodel; 9. Late Antique and Early Medieval Monograms (c. 300-900): From
Producers' Marks to Liminal Graphic Devices Ildar Garipzanov; 10. Crests
and Familial Identity in Medieval Japan David Spafford; 11. Where Credit's
Due: Making Marks and Counting Labor in the Andes Howard Tsai; 12. From
Modeling to Destruction: Cyclicity and Multi-Sensoriality in Learning
Catechisms in the Bolivian Highlands Bérénice Gaillemin.