CS100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Mnemonic, Logogram
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Literature culture: early writing systems, consequences of shifts (really old new media ): stone to papyrus; oral to. Lecture 3 literature cultures: tokens, preceded the development of full writing systems. Keeping track : organizes hierarchies, aids in development of administration, bureaucracy, economy, writing= dissemination of power and authority, sumerian clay tables (triangular language, administration, accountancy. Writing was pictographic: pictorial representation of concrete objects, resembles the object it represents. Other writing system: logographic: a sign or a character representing a word, but the logogram does not resemble that which it stands for, relatively arbitrary relations between the logo and its meaning. Phonographic: a symbol that represents a vocal sounds (such as the alphabet, ties spoken language to written language, phoenican alphabet circa 1500 bce. Important qualification- communication remains oral until invention of printing press: allows for the collection of knowledge (write down and keep it, allows for the reflective consideration about thing we know or think we know.
