An Exploration of Writing - Peter T. Daniels
Pictograms and Mysteries
An Exploration of Writing - Peter T. Daniels
Peter T. Daniels [+]
Independent Scholar
Peter T. Daniels, the world’s leading expert on writing systems, holds degrees in linguistics from Cornell University and the University of Chicago. His first interests were in Comparative Semitic linguistics, which built to the study of writing and decipherment. His challenge to his teacher I. J. Gelb’s influential theories of the evolution of scripts has led to a persistent search for legitimate principles of the nature and development of writing. He is co-editor (with William Bright) of and principal contributor to The World’s Writing Systems (1996) and is hte author of An Exploration of Writing (Equinox, 2018).
Description
Inevitably there must be a mention of graphic communication devices that do not qualify as true writing, both because they have sometimes been mischaracterized and because in the case of one of them (Yukaghir), the author made a discovery that has not yet been published elsewhere.