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Signs of Civilisation
- How punctuation changed history
Engelsk Paperback
Signs of Civilisation
- How punctuation changed history
Engelsk Paperback

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''Punctuation is not only an important part of our language code; an advanced system of punctuation has been a driving force in our entire Western Civilisation. Nothing less.''

With the invention of printing, reading books moved from being an act only performed by priests and aristocrats into an individual, even private, activity. This change helped spark the Renaissance, the Reformation, the Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution - in which punctuation played a crucial role. As long as texts were read out loud only by an educated elite there was no need for punctuation to mark pauses, full stops or questions.

So punctuation - the full stop, the comma, the exclamation mark, the question mark and the semicolon - helped shape modern-day Europe as we know it.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
176
ISBN-13:
9781529326710
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1529326710
Udg. Dato:
3 sep 2020
Længde:
15mm
Bredde:
196mm
Højde:
128mm
Forlag:
Hodder & Stoughton
Oplagsdato:
3 sep 2020
Forfatter(e):
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