text production

(1) Overcoming the limitations of time and space in language information transmission

(2) Writing enables the accumulation of human culture

(3) Writing can promote the development of thinking

1. Text is the written/visual symbol that records language—form, sound, and meaning.

2. Writing is a system and a recoding of language.

1. Compared with pinyin characters, square Chinese characters often know their “meaning” through their “shape”.

2. Chinese characters are not only connected to specific morpheme meanings, but also to specific phonetic forms.

3. Chinese characters carry more information in the same space.

4. Chinese characters transcend time and space and transcend dialects.

Note pictures are not words yet

Picture notes are generally considered to be the predecessor of writing

There are a sufficient number of small graphics corresponding to morphemes or words in a certain language, and these small graphics can be pronounced according to the pronunciation of this language.

These small graphics can be used repeatedly without changing the meaning of the sounds they express.

The arrangement rules of these small figures are enough to reflect the order of morphemes or words when speaking this language...

Dongba Jing et al.

Different ways of expressing meaning

Does the graphic express a fixed meaning?

Does the sorting order correspond?

Whether to use borrowed sounds

commonality of words

1. Phonetic characters

2. Phonetic characters

1. Definition: Text that arises spontaneously and gradually improves on the basis of a certain language

2. Types of self-sourced texts

3. Common points

1. Ancient Egyptian: Developed a fixed sound symbol of one symbol to one sound

2. Chinese characters: A large number of newly created pictophonetic characters appear

3. Ancient Sumerian writing: has remained at the stage of imperfect phonetic writing.

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