8
The Five Pillars of Decipherment
Lecture no. 8 from the course: Writing and Civilization: From Ancient Worlds to Modernity
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Taught by Professor Marc Zender | 30 min | Categories: Literature & Language
First, get an introduction to the five preconditions or "pillars" necessary for decipherment to be possible, paying particular attention to the first pillar, known as script type. Then turn to the typology of the three main categories of signs found across the world-logograms, phonograms, and semantic signs-and consider how these signs are combined in different writing systems.
24 Lectures
1
What Is Writing?
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of 31 min
2
The Origins and Development of Writing
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of 31 min
3
Where Did Our Alphabet Come From?
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of 29 min
4
The Fubark-A Germanic Alphabet
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of 30 min
5
Chinese-A Logosyllabic Script
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of 29 min
6
Japanese-The World's Most Complex Script
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of 30 min
7
What Is Decipherment?
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of 29 min
8
The Five Pillars of Decipherment
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of 30 min
9
Epigraphic Illustration
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of 28 min
10
The History of Language
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of 30 min
11
Proper Nouns and Cultural Context
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of 30 min
12
Bilinguals, Biscripts, and Other Constraints
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of 29 min
13
Egyptian-The First Great Decipherment
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of 30 min
14
What Do Egyptian Hieroglyphs Say?
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of 30 min
15
Old Persian-Cuneiform Deciphered
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of 31 min
16
What Does Cuneiform Say?
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of 32 min
17
Mycenaean Linear B-An Aegean Syllabary
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of 32 min
18
Mayan Glyphs-A New World Logosyllabary
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of 30 min
19
What Do the Mayan Glyphs Say?
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of 30 min
20
Aztec Hieroglyphs-A Recent Decipherment
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of 31 min
21
Etruscan and Meroitic-Undeciphered Scripts
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of 31 min
22
Han'gul, Tengwar, and Other Featural Scripts
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of 31 min
23
Medium and Message
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of 31 min
24
The Future of Writing
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of 32 min
