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- Title
Semiotics and writing systems.
- Authors
Proskurin, Sergey G.
- Abstract
This article deals with semiotic modeling in writing. The process of modeling is involved in the creation of new scripts and alphabets. The narrative describes the so called ABC-principle in action. Since the ABC code is also a text, the letters have meaningful collocations and the letter names have meaningful associations. The sequence of letters in an ABC is a meaningful syntagm within a ritual text. We shall attempt to prove that these parts of an ABC are meaningful micro-texts that constitute a model of the world as conceived in Indo-European culture. Together with rituals, alphabets have contributed to the formation of concepts of the physical world and cultural identities.
- Subjects
WRITING; SYLLABARY; ALPHABET; INDO-European etymology; SEMIOTICS; HITTITE terms &; phrases
- Publication
Semiotica, 2015, Vol 2015, Issue 205, p261
- ISSN
0037-1998
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/sem-2015-0007