Signs of Civilisation - How punctuation changed history

Informationen zum Autor B?rd Borch Michalsen (born 1958) is a qualified media expert and has been working as a journalist and editor for newspapers most of his life. He is already an author of several published books, and is now teaching profesional communication at Arctic University of Norway in Troms?, Norway. Klappentext 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. Signs of Civilisation provides an account of the rich cultural history of punctuation. Zusammenfassung Signs of Civilisation provides an account of the rich cultural history of punctuation.

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• Authors: Bård Borch Michalsen, Bård Borch Michaelsen, B@00000041@#229 Michaelsen, B229 Michaelsen, Bard Borch Michaelsen, Bård Borch Michaelsen, B@00000041@#229 Michalsen, Bard Borch Michalsen, Bård Borch Michalsen, rd Borch
• Publisher: Sceptre
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 03.09.2020
• EAN: 9781529326710
• ISBN: 978-1-5293-2671-0
• No. of pages: 160
• Dimensions: 126 mm x 196 mm x 14 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; HISTORY / Civilization, Social & cultural history, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Alphabets & Writing Systems, Social and cultural history, Language learning: writing skills, Writing skills, Writing systems, alphabets