Thanks everybody!
This was very helpful!
David
On Jan 2, 2007, at 10:27 PM, Phil Chappell wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> You shouldn't overlook:
>
> Halliday, M.A.K. (1985), Spoken and Written Language, OUP
> Halliday, M.A.K. & Martin, J.R. (1993), Writing Science: Literary
> and Discursive Power, Pittsburgh U.P.
>
> Thanks to everyone for the growing bibliography in this area!
> Phil
> On 03/01/2007, at 7:57 AM, Kathryn Alexander wrote:
>
>> hello,
>>
>> there is also the work of Goody and Watt , Walter Ong's Orality
>> and Literacy and Eric Havelock The Muse learns to write
>>
>> The coming of literate communication to western culture - group of
>> 2 »
>> E Havelock - Journal of Communication, 1980 - Blackwell Synergy
>> Page 1. Literacy and the Future of Print The Coming of Literate
>> Communication
>> to Western Culture by Eric A. Havelock The invention ...
>> Cited by 16 - Related Articles - Web Search
>>
>> Kathryn
>>
>>> hi david and mike
>>> yes, mike gave you two important sources in writing systems.You
>>> can add
>>> Ignace Gelb, histoire de l´ecriture. Paris: Presse
>>> Universitaire du France (1976). There is an spanish printing by
>>> Alianza Editorial.
>>> Also, there is a david olson´s chapter in Wertsch, del río and
>>> Alvarez´s Sociocultural studies of mind ( 1995). " Writing and
>>> the mind", pp. 95-123.
>>> good luck!
>>> Ignacio Dalton
>>>
>>> Mike Cole <lchcmike@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi David--
>>>
>>> There is a LOT of material on the topic of writing systems.
>>> Two interesting places to start are:
>>>
>>> D. Schmandt-Besserat, Before Writing:. U of Texas Press. 1992
>>> (two volumes)
>>>
>>> R. Harris. The origin of writing. Open Court. 1986.
>>>
>>> David Olson has written extensively on this topic, primarily from
>>> secondary
>>> sources.
>>>
>>> I am unsure of best sources that delve into origins of writing in
>>> China
>>> which were more or less co-incident with
>>> events in Euphrates area.
>>> mike
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