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Grammatology
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Grapholinguistics.
Grammatology
The term grammatology was first promoted in English by linguistIgnace Gelb in his 1952 book A Study of Writing. The equivalent word is recorded in German and French use long before then. Grammatology examines the typology of scripts, the analysis of the structural properties of scripts, and the relationship between written and spoken language. In its broadest sense, some scholars also include the study of literacy in grammatology and, indeed, the impact of writing on philosophy, religion, science, administration and other aspects of the organization of society. Historian Bruce Trigger associates grammatology with cultural evolution.