Empire and CommunicationsDundurn, 01.01.2007 - 288 Seiten It’s been said that without Harold A. Innis there could have been no Marshall McLuhan. Empire and Communications is one of Innis’s most important contributions to the debate about how media influence the development of consciousness and societies. In this seminal text, he traces humanity’s movement from the oral tradition of preliterate cultures to the electronic media of recent times. Along the way, he presents his own influential concepts of oral communication, time and space bias, and monopolies of knowledge. |
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... activity required a large number of professional scribes or of those who could read and write. In turn the difficulties of writing a complex language implied a long period of training and the development of 48 HAROLD A. INNIS.
... activity required a large number of professional scribes or of those who could read and write. In turn the difficulties of writing a complex language implied a long period of training and the development of 48 HAROLD A. INNIS.
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... language to which the conquerors would not adapt themselves. The difficulty of uniting languages with different structures involved supplanting the older language.The Sumerians had limited need for signs representing syllables, but the ...
... language to which the conquerors would not adapt themselves. The difficulty of uniting languages with different structures involved supplanting the older language.The Sumerians had limited need for signs representing syllables, but the ...
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... language official. The Amorites reinforced the Akkadians and their language became the popular speech and the official medium. The Babylonians wrote words in non-Semitic form but in the main pronounced them as Semitic. Influenced by ...
... language official. The Amorites reinforced the Akkadians and their language became the popular speech and the official medium. The Babylonians wrote words in non-Semitic form but in the main pronounced them as Semitic. Influenced by ...
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... language. Driven into north Syria they probably introduced Mitanni-Hittite art, including the practice of engraving Semitic script in relief, to Zenjuli. A simplified script, developed at Carchemish to meet the demands of trade in the ...
... language. Driven into north Syria they probably introduced Mitanni-Hittite art, including the practice of engraving Semitic script in relief, to Zenjuli. A simplified script, developed at Carchemish to meet the demands of trade in the ...
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... language of the Assyrians varied in details from that of the Akkadians and the cuneiform signs of Hammurabi were used, though conservatism in writing brought greater complexity than that of the script that had been modified by ...
... language of the Assyrians varied in details from that of the Akkadians and the cuneiform signs of Hammurabi were used, though conservatism in writing brought greater complexity than that of the script that had been modified by ...
Inhalt
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The Oral Tradition and Greek Civilization | 75 |
The Written Tradition and the Roman Empire | 106 |
Paper and the Printing Press | 138 |
Paper and the Printing Press | 164 |
Notes | 199 |
Marginalia | 220 |
Suggested Reading | 270 |
Index | 274 |
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