by Georges Jean · GALLIMARD · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070530847
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«Langage de signes: l’écriture et son double» is the essay by Georges Jean, published by Gallimard in paperback (207 pages, in French).
The essay explores how human beings communicate through signs: from gesture to symbol, from pictogram to logo. It covers examples such as cave paintings, the Chappe telegraph, Morse code, maps and signage. More than 230 illustrations accompany this history of the sign networks that build the human world.
Originally published in 1989. Volume 67 of the Découvertes Gallimard collection, in the Archéologie series.
A popular work aimed at a general audience, as well as students and professionals interested in the history of communication and visual language.
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