Writing Systems - Second edition - Geoffrey Sampson
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Writing Systems - Second edition - Geoffrey Sampson
Geoffrey Sampson [+]
University of South Africa
Geoffrey Sampson is Professor Emeritus at Sussex University and a Research Fellow in the Linguistics Department at the University of South Africa. His most recent book is Grammar Without Grammaticality (2014, with Anna Babarczy).
Description
This chapter takes a look at the outward forms of scripts and how this is affected by the choice of writing materials (what kind of surface is marked, and what instruments do the marking), including discussion of web typography.