The last few weeks I\u2019ve been caught up in other projects and I realized I hadn\u2019t been posting much. One of my projects soon to be posted on my website is a lecture series with many illustrations about scriptology—the lore of alphabets and writing systems. My point, summarizing, is that the field represents a truly inter-disciplinary field that overlaps into play, literature, art, communications studies, education, and other realms. Of course it involves linguistics—though many books about linguistics hardly mention it! (Not just the word, scriptology—few folks use that term; I mean that many linguists hardly recognize the nature of writing. Some treat it as another type of language, others don\u2019t know exactly what to make of this invention.) Scholars of archeology, ancient and classical civilizations, anthropology, and regional history also have aspects of their field that overlap with whatever writing systems come into their purview, but I don\u2019t know how much they feel free to relax in academia and just fool around with the forms.<\/p>\n
If you know of anyone who shares this interest, please have them network with me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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