The Writing Revolution: Cuneiform to the Internet (The Language Library), 2nd Edition by Amalia E. Gnanadesikan
English | July 14th, 2025 | ISBN: 1394218192 | 400 pages | True EPUB | 13.41 MB
Now in its second edition, The Writing Revolution takes readers on a journey through the origins, historical development, adaptations, linguistic properties, cultural context, and social impact of the world's major written traditions. Demonstrating how the creation of writing transcended the limitations of human memory and made the modern world possible, linguist Amalia E. Gnanadesikan offers an engaging, easy-to-read historical narrative of written language that covers everything from the earliest proto-cuneiform tablet to the latest AI-generated text.
