Language & History, Volume 61, Issue 1-2 (2018)

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Writing Systems

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Introduction
On the historiography of writing systems
David Cram & Cordula Neis
Pages: 1-5
Published online: 29 Aug 2018
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Writing Systems

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The proper alphabet principle
David Cram
Pages: 6-22
Published online: 08 Apr 2018
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Writing systems and cultural identity: ogam in medieval and early modern Ireland
Erich Poppe
Pages: 23-38
Published online: 25 Apr 2018
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European conceptions of ‘exotic’ writing systems in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
Cordula Neis
Pages: 39-51
Published online: 16 Apr 2018
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Colonial grammatology: the versatility and transformation of European letters in sixteenth-century Spanish America
Andrew Laird
Pages: 52-59
Published online: 08 Apr 2018
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Aztec hieroglyphics: a name-based writing system
Gordon Whittaker
Pages: 60-76
Published online: 16 Apr 2018
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Charles Dickens and Gurney’s shorthand: ‘that savage stenographic mystery’
John Vice
Pages: 77-93
Published online: 24 Apr 2018
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