| Description |
4 videodiscs (approximately 720 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (volumes, 232 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm). |
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Great courses. Literature & language |
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Great courses (DVD). Literature and language.
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| Note |
24 lectures (30 min. each). |
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Teaching Company: PD2241A. |
| Contents |
Disc 1. What is writing -- The origins and development of writing -- Where did our alphabet come from? -- The fubark : a German alphabet -- Chinese : a logosyllabic script -- Japanese : the world's mos complex script. |
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Disc 2. What is decipherment? -- The five pillars of decipherment -- Epigraphic illustration -- The history of language -- Proper nouns and cultural context -- Bilinguals, biscripts, and other constraints. |
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Disc 3. Egyptian : the first great decipherment -- What do Egyptian hieroglyphs say? -- Old Persian : cuneiform deciphered -- What does cuneiform say? -- Mycenaean linear B : an ancient syllabary -- Mayan glyphs : a new world logosyllabary. |
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Disc 4. What do the Mayan glyphs say? -- Aztec hieroglyphs : a recent decipherment -- Etruscan and Meroitic : undeciphered scripts -- Han'gul, Tengwar, and other featural scripts -- Medium and message -- The future of writing. |
| Performer |
Lectures by Marc Zender, visiting assistant professor at Tulane. |
| Summary |
In this course, you'll trace the remarkable saga of the invention and evolution of "visible speech," from its earliest origins to its future in the digital age. Professor Marc Zender--Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Tulane University and an accomplished epigrapher--whisks you around the globe on a thrilling journey to explore how an array of sophisticated writing systems developed, then were adopted and adapted by surrounding cultures. |
| System Details |
DVD. |
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Civilization -- History -- Videodiscs.
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Literacy -- History -- Videodiscs.
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Writing -- History -- Videodiscs.
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| Genre |
Lectures.
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Educational films.
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| Added Author |
Zender, Marc.
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Teaching Company.
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| ISBN |
9781598039894 |
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159803989X |
| Music No. |
PD2241A Teaching Company |
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