Shady Characters
Subtitle: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, and Other Typographical Marks
Publisher: Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York, USA; London, England
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9780393241549
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Signs and symbols; Punctuation; Type and type-founding, history; Writing, history
Table of contents: label: Preface
title: ix; label: How to Read this Book
title: xii; label: 1. The Pilcrow
title: 3; label: 2. The Interrobang
title: 25; label: 3. The Octothorpe
title: 41; label: 4. The Ampersand
title: 59; label: 5. The @ Symbol
title: 79; label: 6. The Asterisk and Dagger
title: 97; label: 7. The Hyphen
title: 121; label: 8. The Dash
title: 145; label: 9. The Manicule
title: 167; label: 10. Quotation Marks
title: 187; label: 11. Irony and Sarcasm
title: 211; label: 1. Irony in History
title: 212; label: 2. Ironics
title: 223; label: 3. Digital Sarcasm
title: 229; label: Afterword
title: 245; label: Further Reading
title: 247; label: Acknowledgments
title: 249; label: Notes
title: 251; label: Illustration Credits
title: 319; label: Index
title: 323