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The History of Writing - Online Term Paper

The History of Writing

Derek Malloy
1/15/2012
Prof. Heath
Hum240-MalloyD-w01-e01

It has been strongly believed that writing started from the art form of drawing. Before writing was developed, ancient humans made use of materialistic objects and simple drawings to make records of many different things such as their population, properties, harvests, bags, their wars with other tribes and other important events. These early drawings could suggest nothing about sound and meaning. Later developed drawings, were picture writing, also known as pictograms. What was different from pictograms and the modern writing systems, each picture or pictogram was a solid direct image of its representation. There was no actual ...

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wording, but still tend to be very communicative in a narrow sense, if one can actually understand their conventions. Examples of how Pictograms are often used today are such as international road-signs, parking lots and signs on public toilets showing which are for men and which for women.

Throughout the history of the pictogram, it was found to have a strong meaning behind it, the pictogram's meaning was extended in that the picture represented not only the original object but the attributes of that objects in it, or concepts associated with it. So if the pictogram was carrying a picture of the sun, it could represent "warmth", "heat", "daytime" and so on. Pictograms really began to represent mans ideas rather than objects and such pictograms are called ideograms, idea pictures or "idea writing". With the use of symbols standing for ideas which could be pictured , instead of the sounds to make up words, it ended up reaching less of a conventional stage, it became ...

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Added: 2/10/2012 04:57:46 PM
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