作者:安德魯•羅賓遜(Andrew Robinson),英國伊頓公學國王學者(King’s Scholar of Eton College),已在英國和美國齣版二十多部著作,並譯成多種語言,其中一些被英美大學列為通識課程的參考圖書。
譯者:楊小麟,原為北京郵電大學教師,現為北京人濟萬怡酒店人力資源總監。張誌清,國傢圖書館副館長。
Writing is arguably humanity's greatest invention, for without it there would be no history and no civilization as we know it. In a succinct and absorbing text, Andrew Robinson demystifies writing, explaining the interconnection between sound, symbol, and script, and discussing the major writing systems, from cuneiform and Egyptian and Maya hieroglyphs to alphabets and the scripts of China and Japan. He explores "proto-writing," including Ice Age symbols, tallies, and Native American pictograms, and surveys the astonishing multiplicity of alphabets--not only Greek, Roman, Hebrew, Arabic, and Indian scripts, but also the Cherokee "alphabet" and the writing of runes. Full coverage is given to the story of decipherment, and how the words of past ages have been brought back to life through the efforts of Champollion, Ventris, and others. In a provocative chapter devoted to still-undeciphered scripts, Robinson challenges the reader: Can the code of the Indus script, Cretan Linear A, the Phaistos Disc, or Easter Island ever be broken? A special feature of the book is the step-by-step illustrated analysis of the way each script works. By the end, even the beginner will have gained a basic understanding of the world's major scripts. With its dynamic layout and authoritative text, this is both a book to read for pleasure and an invaluable reference on the world's major writing systems. "The Story of Writing" is a winner of the 1996 Scientific American Young Readers Book Award.
發表於2024-12-23
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在《喚醒沉睡的文字》一書中,英國作傢安德魯羅賓遜通過各種文字的解讀來嚮我們展示瞭文字的魅力,將沉睡已久的文字喚醒,呈現在我們的眼前,這是一種讓人為之緻敬的作為。上一次閱讀關於文字的著作還是《漢字樹》,那本對漢字追本溯源並且將漢字一一解析的書第一次給我帶來瞭...
評分在《喚醒沉睡的文字》一書中,英國作傢安德魯羅賓遜通過各種文字的解讀來嚮我們展示瞭文字的魅力,將沉睡已久的文字喚醒,呈現在我們的眼前,這是一種讓人為之緻敬的作為。上一次閱讀關於文字的著作還是《漢字樹》,那本對漢字追本溯源並且將漢字一一解析的書第一次給我帶來瞭...
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評分文字,是我們人類能夠持續發展進化的一種標誌。它的齣現,纔有瞭我們對曆史的見證,纔有瞭今天的書籍,纔有瞭今天的閱讀,纔有瞭今天的文化,纔有瞭今天的文明發展。那些神奇的文字,代錶著古老的文明...... 《喚醒沉睡的文字》作者安德魯•羅賓遜,伊頓公學的“國王學者”...
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