FF:OJ204 Writing systems of the World - Course Information
OJ204 Writing systems of the World
Faculty of ArtsSpring 2015
- Extent and Intensity
- 2/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
- Teacher(s)
- prof. RNDr. Václav Blažek, CSc. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- prof. RNDr. Václav Blažek, CSc.
Department of Linguistics and Baltic Languages – Faculty of Arts
Supplier department: Department of Linguistics and Baltic Languages – Faculty of Arts - Timetable
- Wed 12:30–14:05 U34
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 40 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/40, only registered: 0/40, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/40 - fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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- Course objectives
- The course provides a comprehensive survey of origin and development of script from pictograms to alphabet. The spreading os various scripts are mapped in space and time. The concrete examples of decipherment of illustrate the basic stratiegies in this field. The examples of texts in transcription demonstrate the internal structure of texts of various type. The students should get the competences in analysis of texts, determination of the internal structure of scripts and its correspondence with the used languages.
- Syllabus
- 1. Mesopotamia: from pictograms to cuneiform and its spreading in the Near East. 2. Egypt: hieroglyphs - hieratic - demotic. 3. Syllabic scripts of East Mediterranean: Linear A+B, Cypriotic, Luwian hieroglyphs. 4. Proto-Elamite and Proto-Indic pictograms. 5. Origin and development of script in China, its spreading outside of China (Korea, Japan). 6. Transformation of Egyptian hieroglyfic "alphabet" in semitic consonantic alphabets. 7. Aramaic script as a source of Indic syllabic and Central Asiatic consonant and alphabetic scripts. 8. Phoenician script as a source of Mediterranean alphabets. 9. Variants of the Greek alpabet as a source the alphabets of Asia Minor, Italy, Gothic, Armenian, Georgian, Cyrillic, Coptic and Nubian scripts. 10. Italic alphabets as a source of Ogham and Runic scripts. 11. Origin of script in America.
- Literature
- O další literatuře jsou studenti informováni ve výuce.
- KRUPA, Viktor and Jozef GENZOR. Písma sveta. 1. vyd. Bratislava: Obzor, 1989, 358 s. ISBN 8021500115. info
- FRIEDRICH, Johannes. Istorija pis'ma. Moskva: Nauka, 1979, 463 s. info
- DOBLHOFER, Ernst. Od obrázkov k písmu : rozlúštěnie zabudnutých písiem a jazykov. 1. vyd. Bratislava: Obzor, 1972, 366 s. info
- DIRINGER, David. Alfavit. Moskva: Izdatel'stvo inostrannoj literatury, 1963, 655 s. info
- LOUKOTKA, Čestmír. Vývoj písma. I. vydání. Praha: Orbis, 1946, 226 stran. URL info
- Teaching methods
- Teacher presents the tree-diagrams, comparative tables of various scripts and finally together with students try to interpret chosen texts.
- Assessment methods
- The succesful output depends on a succesful decipherment of the text written in a known language, but unknown script.
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further Comments
- Study Materials
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2015, recent)
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