http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/rss/books/RSS.xml The latest new books in Language and Linguistics: Psycholinguistics and Language Acquisition en-us Mon, 20 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT 1440 http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/W/bo8388041.html Two dozen or so wooden tablets discovered on Easter Island late in the nineteenth century are all that remain of rongorongo&#8212;a series of glyphs thought to be the writing system of the island&#8217;s lost people. In Words Out of Wood, M. de Laat explores the construction and use of these enigmatic figures and makes a compelling case that rongorongo, despite its resistance to decipherment, constitutes nothing less than a fully developed script. Reproduced here in clear, full-page illustrations, the glyphs stand alongside the great moai statues as lasting monuments of the inventiveness and artistry of the remote Pacific island. <div><p>Two dozen or so wooden tablets discovered on Easter Island late in the nineteenth century are all that remain of rongorongo&#8212;a series of glyphs thought to be the writing system of the island&#8217;s lost people. In <i>Words Out of Wood</i>, M. de Laat explores the construction and use of these enigmatic figures and makes a compelling case that rongorongo, despite its resistance to decipherment, constitutes nothing less than a fully developed script. Reproduced here in clear, full-page illustrations, the glyphs stand alongside the great moai statues as lasting monuments of the inventiveness and artistry of the remote Pacific island. </p></div> Language and Linguistics: Psycholinguistics and Language Acquisition Sun, 01 Nov 2009 05:00:00 GMT M. De Laat 9789059722835