Esquema de estadios sucesivos en el paso de la escritura ideográfica a la fonémica

Abstract

The   shift   from   an   ideographic   writing   to   an   alphabetic   or

phonemic   one   constituted   a   milestone   in   Antiquity

regarding   thought   about   language   and   its   representation

(and   thought   in   general).   By   no   means   was   it   a   singular

milestone,   but   rather   one   which   is   ever   renewing   and

always  open   to  new  findings  and  contexts.

A   scheme   is   sketched   here   that   attempts   to   account   for   the

different   ways   in   which   such   development   can   take   place.

Particular   attention   is   paid   to   the   relationship   of   writing   to

the  specific  linguistic  type.  Some  brief  additional  remarks   on

the  principle  of  rebus  and  on  the  so-­‐‑called  Schlagwortprinzip

are  included.