Indenture of servants, deeding of property, evidence at trials, and accounts of the lives of saints all came to be functions of written texts.
The tokens, examples of which are also are in the show, transmitted information, a key function of writing.
The commentary on Plato's Phaedrus by J. Derrida, shows a Pharmakon (medication/poison) function of writing.
ALBERT SCHORSCH III Associate Dean, College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs, University of Illinois at Chicago Dec. 11 The labeling that you are concerned with is a function of writing history.
As a function of writing sonatas and symphonies (to say nothing of humbler genres), he had no choice but to smile now and then, to favor the world with a minuet or a scherzo.
Perhaps this is a function of writing about another culture without knowing the language, or maybe the enormous respect Galbraith accords his subjects prevents him from dipping into their dark sides.
As we define the basic function of writing as transmission of thought and knowledge by the help of signs, typography is one step beyond this definition, in another meaning it is "arts/design making by writing" dimension.
While those ancient texts that have prevailed demonstrate the longevity of the medium on which they are recorded, they also reveal the role and function of writing in the cultures they represent.
Then it's just a function of writing each section, re-reading to test for flow, attempting to edit a bit and then hit publish.
