LIN 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: List Of Mathematical Symbols, Syllabary, Logogram
4 Oct 2017
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Writing allows humans to transmit information to others not within hearing distance, both spatially and temporally. Writing: the representation of language with the use of visual signs. The primary goal of writing is to make our utterances, which are by default audible, visible. Signs within a writing system may be iconic. Whether iconic or symbolic, writing must represent language. The cheyenne letter is an instance of pictographs. Pictorial representation of objects, ideas and events. Signs represent an event or an idea and not direct language i. e. , not words, morphemes, phonemes, etc. Independent of a word or utterance, which refers to that object, idea or event. Speech is bound to utterance time; writing is not. Diachrony, not synchrony, tends to be represented. In devising a writing system one must choose between representing meaning (logographic) or representing sound (phonographic) Contains signs that represent individual sounds that are contrastive in a particular language.
