An investigation into the origin and development of writing throughout the world.
A broad, accessible history of reading from antiquity to today, which also assesses its future.
A History of Language charts the history of linguistics from the times of Homo erectus through to the nineteenth century when the science of linguistics was developed and analyses the emergence of language as a science and its development as a written form.
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