Introduction
| Dublin Core | PKP Metadata Items | Metadata for this Document | |
| 1. | Title | Title of document | Introduction - Writing Systems |
| 2. | Creator | Author's name, affiliation, country | Geoffrey Sampson; University of South Africa; |
| 3. | Subject | Discipline(s) | linguistics; communication studies |
| 4. | Subject | Keyword(s) | writing systems; written languages; cultural technologies; orthography; syllabic systems; logographic systems; phonographic systems; alphabets; spelling reform |
| 5. | Subject | Subject classification | Writing systems, alphabets (CFLA) |
| 6. | Description | Abstract | The author explains the scope and rationale underlying the second edition of his book. The premise of the book being that the study of writing systems should be treated as a standard branch of linguistics. The structure of the book is laid out -- organized around a series of 7 case studies. |
| 7. | Publisher | Organizing agency, location | Equinox Publishing Ltd |
| 8. | Contributor | Sponsor(s) | |
| 9. | Date | (YYYY-MM-DD) | 30-Jan-2015 |
| 10. | Type | Status & genre | Peer-reviewed Article |
| 11. | Type | Type | |
| 12. | Format | File format | |
| 13. | Identifier | Uniform Resource Identifier | https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/books/article/view/22695 |
| 14. | Identifier | Digital Object Identifier | 10.1558/equinox.22695 |
| 15. | Source | Journal/conference title; vol., no. (year) | Equinox eBooks Publishing; Writing Systems |
| 16. | Language | English=en | en |
| 18. | Coverage | Geo-spatial location, chronological period, research sample (gender, age, etc.) |
global, historical |
| 19. | Rights | Copyright and permissions | Copyright 2014 Equinox Publishing Ltd |