Johannes Gutenberg and the shadow of Bi Sheng : how language developed. Why writing developed in China -- and printing in Europe. And whether that can tell us anything for the future / Hans Giessen.
Giessen, Hans, author.
2023
P41 .G54 2023
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Title Johannes Gutenberg and the shadow of Bi Sheng : how language developed. Why writing developed in China -- and printing in Europe. And whether that can tell us anything for the future / Hans Giessen.
Author Giessen, Hans, author.
ISBN 9783658428655 (electronic bk.)
3658428651 (electronic bk.)
9783658428648
3658428643
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-42865-5
Published Wiesbaden : Springer VS, 2023.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (viii, 124 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-658-42865-5 doi
Call Number P41 .G54 2023
Dewey Decimal Classification 417/.7
Summary Without language, not much else would exist: no writing, no computer -- as a matter of fact, no technical or medical progress that make our lives less painful, and easier indeed; but also not some horrors that characterize our world. In fact, language is what defines humans and distinguishes them from other living beings -- and is the basis of all other developments. How is it possible that something as complex and fascinating as 'language' has come into being at all? How does language 'work'? And how did it develop? What is common to all languages -- and why are there so many? Further questions are how man began to write, and how printing developed -- in which languages? Why not in any language? And does this teach us anything for further developments? In trying to answer these and other questions, we experience an exciting history of scientific research. The Author Hans Giessen is a double habilitated professor and affiliated with the University of Helsinki (Finland), Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce (Poland), and Saarland University in Saarbrücken (Germany). He was knighted, as a Chevalier de l'Ordre national du Mérite, by the French president. His works have been translated into several languages.
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Introduction
Children from the wild, children without language
Pidgin and Creole
Preconditions and Self Organization
I, Robot
To Hear and to Speak
To Speak and to Think
Hunters and Gatherers
The Languages of Hunter-Gatherers
The Neolithic Revolution
Hierarchies
Pictography
The Rebus Principle
Syllabary
Finally: the Alphabet
Where printing was invented
The Shadow of Bi Sheng: Seal, Paper, Ink and the Press
Johannes Gutenberg
Current Developments
A final thought
References
Figures.

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