WRITING AS TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURAL ECOLOGY by Harald Haarmann ( 9783631617366 )

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WRITING AS TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURAL ECOLOGY
EXPLORATIONS OF THE HUMAN MIND AT THE DAWN OF HISTORY

By:

Harald Haarmann

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3631617364

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PETER LANG AG

Pub. date:

30 July, 2011

Series:

Duisburger Arbeiten zur Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaft / Duisburg Papers on 82

Pages:

378

Synopsis:

Writing is unanimously regarded as a marker of civilization in the sense of `civilization as high culture'. This insight has never been seriously questioned. What makes writing a marker of civilization is more than its mere function as an information technology. Those who possess writing have always been aware that, beyond the practical use of rendering ideas and words in the written code, it constitutes the realm of symbolic values that make writing an ingredient of cultural ecology. In order to perceive the magnitude of the art of writing as a communicational tool designed by the inventive mind, it is necessary to shed light on the cultural conditions in human communities that further the motivation of early writing. The present outline therefore does not only focus on a formal description of the ancient scripts as an information technology but also on the evolution of human symbol-making and on an inspection of the sociocultural conditions which made the elaboration of a system of visual communication - of first writing - possible.

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Switzerland

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Peter Lang AG

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