从南亚字体看历史技术对语言视觉表现的影响

IF 0.3 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS
Fiona Ross
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南亚的文字主要来源于婆罗门文字,为占世界人口五分之一以上的众多语言社区提供了可见的声音。然而,这些视觉多样的文字从象形文字到印刷形式的转变是由历史过程决定的,这些历史过程很少有助于准确呈现非拉丁文字。本文对历史技术对南亚语言排版文本构成的影响进行了批判性评价。它利用相关档案收藏的资源,在历史背景下考虑技术限制,这些限制对决定南亚印刷术的文本外观至关重要。在这样做的过程中,它试图阐明有意或无意地塑造了后来和当前印刷实践的设计决策,并质疑历史技术影响对当代白话文传播的持续影响的有效性。
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Historical Technological Impacts on the Visual Representation of Language with Reference to South-Asian Typeforms
The scripts of South Asia, which mainly derive from the Brahmi script, afford a visible voice to the numerous linguistic communities that form over one fifth of the world’s population. However, the transition of these visually diverse scripts from chirographic to typographic form has been determined by historical processes that were rarely conducive to accurately rendering non-Latin scripts. This essay provides a critical evaluation of the historical technological impacts on typographic textual composition in South-Asian languages. It draws on resources from relevant archival collections to consider within a historical context the technological constraints that have been crucial in determining the textural appearance of South-Asian typography. In so doing, it seeks to elucidate design decisions that either purposely or unwittingly shaped subsequent and current typographic practice and questions the validity of the continued legacy of historical technological impacts for contemporary vernacular communication.
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Philological Encounters
Philological Encounters Arts and Humanities-Language and Linguistics
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