12 Writing, the history of writing, modern writing systems, writing and speech,

spelling and pronunciation.

Guidelines:

legends about the history of writing

pictograms,ideograms

Cuneiform writing

Hieroglyphic writing, rebus principle

Modern writing systems: word-, syllable-, alphabetic writing

Writing vs.speech

References:

1 our lecture

2 Victoria Fromkin, Robert Rodman: An Introduction to Language, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc., USA, chapter 9 Writing: The ABCs of Language

or Goerge Yule: The study of language,CUP, chapter 2 The development of Writing