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