Shady characters
Subtitle: the secret life of punctuation, symbols & other typographical marks
Edition: First edition
Publisher: W. W. Norton; W.W. Norton & Company
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780393064421
Copyright date: 2013
Description: Revealing the secret history of punctuation, this tour of two thousand years of the written word, from ancient Greece to the Internet, explores the parallel histories of language and typography throughout the world and across time.
Table of contents: label: Preface
pagenum: ix; label: How to Read This Book
pagenum: xii; label: The pilcrow
pagenum: 3; label: The interrobang
pagenum: 25; label: The octothorpe
title: #
pagenum: 41; label: The ampersand
title: &
pagenum: 59; label: The @ symbol
title: @
pagenum: 79; label: The asterisk and dagger
title: *
pagenum: 97; label: The hyphen
title: -
pagenum: 121; label: The dash
title: --
pagenum: 145; label: The manicule
pagenum: 167; label: Quotation marks
title: ""
pagenum: 187; label: Irony and sarcasm
pagenum: 211; label: 1.
title: Irony in history
pagenum: 212; label: 2.
title: Ironics
pagenum: 223; label: 3.
title: Digital sarcasm
pagenum: 229; label: Afterword
pagenum: 245; label: Further Reading
pagenum: 247; label: Acknowledgments
pagenum: 249; label: Notes
pagenum: 251; label: Illustration Credits
pagenum: 321; label: Index
pagenum: 325