The hidden language of graphic signs cryptic writing and meaningful marks
Buried and camouflaged writing in early China / Haicheng Wang -- Dazzled and absorbed : delayed reading in altered Egyptian hieroglyphic writing / Andréas Stauder -- Impossible unities : full-figure glyphs among the Maya / Stephen Houston -- Inscribe and de-scribe/cipher and de-cipher : a pious phra...
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Cambridge, United Kingdom, New York, NY, USA
Cambridge University Press
2021
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Buried and camouflaged writing in early China / Haicheng Wang -- Dazzled and absorbed : delayed reading in altered Egyptian hieroglyphic writing / Andréas Stauder -- Impossible unities : full-figure glyphs among the Maya / Stephen Houston -- Inscribe and de-scribe/cipher and de-cipher : a pious phrase in medieval Byzantium and Islam / Scott Redford -- Script, pseudoscript, and pseudo-pseudoscript in the work of Filippo Lippi / Benjamin C. Tilghman -- Numerals as letters : Ludic language in chronographic writing / Stephen Chrisomalis -- Marking and writing in an Egyptian workmen's community / Ben Haring -- The semiotics of signa and the significance of signs in Roman stamps / John Bodel -- Late antique and early medieval monograms (c. 300-900) : from producers' marks to liminal graphic devices / Ildar Garipzanov -- Crests and familial identity in medieval Japan / David Spafford -- Where credit's due : making marks and counting labor in the Andes / Howard Tsai -- From modeling to destruction : cyclicity and multi-sensoriality in learning catechisms in the Bolivian highlands / Bérénice Gaillemin. "Spanning continents and millennia, this book explores the zone between picture and text. In doing so, it probes the social worlds and identities that enveloped them. Individuals made these marks, but communities sorted out their meaning and orderly use. There is yearning too, be it a commitment to graphic economy and clarity or to a bettered world. At times, there is sheer joy in cleverness and visual games which only some are invited to play. Being material, these graphs are not just communicative. They may exert talismanic power on their own. By their formal intricacy, some graphs deflect attention from language. Others target meaning by direct entrée, without passing through records of sound. The long persistence of these systems suggests that: (1) graphic notations coalesce and endure because they are useful; (2) writing, as a graphic representation of language, can exist companionably with other notations, each with its own history; and (3) graphic notations can be ad hoc, employed for a single use only; more often, they operate with learned rules of engagement and interpretation. Humans are sufficiently resourceful to devise and deploy many forms of graphic communication"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | xi, 320 Seiten |
| ISBN: | 9781108840613 978-1-108-84061-3 9781108814294 978-1-108-81429-4 9781108886505 |