Grammatology

In modern usage, the term grammatology refers to the scientific study of writing systems or scripts.^[1] This usage was first elucidated in English by linguist Ignace Gelb in his 1952 book A Study of Writing.^[1] The equivalent word is recorded in German and French use long before then.^[2]^[3] Grammatology can examine the typology of scripts, the analysis of the structural properties of scripts, and the relationship between written and spoken language.^[4] In its broadest sense, some scholars also include the study of literacy in grammatology and, indeed, the impact of writing on philosophy, religion, science, administration and other aspects of the organization of society.^[5] Historian Bruce Trigger associates grammatology with cultural evolution.^[6]

^ ^a ^b Gelb, Ignace. 1952. A Study of Writing. Chicago: University of Chicago Press
^ J C Chasse (1792). Versuch eiener griechischen und lateinischen Grammatologie. Königsberg. OCLC 67778627.
^ Francis Massé (1863). Grammatologie Française: A series of 50 examination papers. London. OCLC 56705532.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
^ Daniels, Peter T. 1996. The study of writing systems. In Daniels, Peter T. and Bright, William, eds., The World's Writing Systems, pp. 1-17. New York: Oxford University Press
^ Marc Wilhelm Küster: "Geordnetes Weltbild. Die Tradition des alphabetischen Sortierens von der Keilschrift bis zur EDV. Eine Kulturgeschichte". Niemeyer: Tübingen, 2006/2007,p. 19f
^ Trigger, Bruce G. (2004-12-09) [1998]. "Writing systems: a case study in cultural evolution". In Houston, Stephen D. (ed.). The First Writing: Script Invention as History and Process. Cambridge University Press (published 2004). pp. 39–40. ISBN 9780521838610. Retrieved 2015-03-10. Grammatology, the study of writing systems, offers a useful way to evaluate evolutionary approaches to understanding change in cultural phenomena. [...] Writing has been associated with evolutionary theorizing since the eighteenth century.

[Gelb1952-1] Gelb, Ignace. 1952. A Study of Writing. Chicago: University of Chicago Press

[2] J C Chasse (1792). Versuch eiener griechischen und lateinischen Grammatologie. Königsberg. OCLC 67778627.

[3] Francis Massé (1863). Grammatologie Française: A series of 50 examination papers. London. OCLC 56705532.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

[4] Daniels, Peter T. 1996. The study of writing systems. In Daniels, Peter T. and Bright, William, eds., The World's Writing Systems, pp. 1-17. New York: Oxford University Press

[5] Marc Wilhelm Küster: "Geordnetes Weltbild. Die Tradition des alphabetischen Sortierens von der Keilschrift bis zur EDV. Eine Kulturgeschichte". Niemeyer: Tübingen, 2006/2007,p. 19f

[6] Trigger, Bruce G. (2004-12-09) [1998]. "Writing systems: a case study in cultural evolution". In Houston, Stephen D. (ed.). The First Writing: Script Invention as History and Process. Cambridge University Press (published 2004). pp. 39–40. ISBN 9780521838610. Retrieved 2015-03-10. Grammatology, the study of writing systems, offers a useful way to evaluate evolutionary approaches to understanding change in cultural phenomena. [...] Writing has been associated with evolutionary theorizing since the eighteenth century.

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