Writing systems : human expressions in written form in linguistics and beyond

Abstract

"The thesis is an observation, a scientifical mind design, and a historical timeline to describe the development of writing systems, as part of communicating and as part of decoding stories, stored with the help of writing over the ages. An artistical investigation of writing rules and the graphical philosophy in the history of human kind. [...] In this thesis, writing systems are traveling beyond the classical connotation with linguistics. [...] This thesis shows the similarities between words and numbers when writing is taken into consideration. The thesis consists of a series of exploratory research methods. [...] The modern classification of writing systems is the main outcome of this thesis, but to arrive at that point, many aspects of how is writing used need to be described. [...] The thesis describes the possibilities that a writing system is capable, in the evolution of knowledge taking in consideration as a whole the symbolism to depict words and numbers."