Description: Hidden Language of Graphic Signs : Cryptic Writing and Meaningful Marks, Hardcover by Bodel, John (EDT); Houston, Stephen (EDT), ISBN 1108840612, ISBN-13 9781108840613, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US "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 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 entrâee, 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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Book Title: Hidden Language of Graphic Signs : Cryptic Writing and Meaningful
Number of Pages: 350 Pages
Publication Name: Hidden Language of Graphic Signs : Cryptic Writing and Meaningful Marks
Language: English
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Subject: Archaeology, Communication Studies
Publication Year: 2021
Item Height: 0.8 in
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Language Arts & Disciplines, Social Science
Item Length: 10.3 in
Author: Stephen Houston
Item Width: 7.2 in
Format: Hardcover
