CONTENTS -- Acknowledgements -- Introducing Writing on Writing (Alex de Voogt) -- PLAY IN WRITING -- Strange Byways in Cuneiform Writing (Irving Finkel) -- Scripts and Shapes: The Interplay of Chinese Characters and Japanese Syllabaries in Early Modern Japan (Margarita Winkel) -- Substitution, Substitution, Substitution: The Many Faces of Maya Writing (Erik Boot) -- LOANWORDS -- From Group-Writing to Word Association: Representation and Integration of Foreign Words in Egyptian Script (Joachim Friedrich Quack) -- What is Being Borrowed? Language and Script Contact in Taiwan (Henning Klöter) -- The Adaptation of the Cuneiform Script to Foreign Languages (Wilfred H. van Soldt) -- Loanwords, "Foreign Words," and Foreign Signs in Maya Writing (Erik Boot) -- On Loans and Additions to the Fidäl (Ethiopic) Writing System (Azeb Amha) -- Languages and Scripts in the Maldive Islands: Coding and Encoding (Alex de Voogt) -- Foreign Terms in Sanskrit Pertaining to Writing (Harry Falk) -- POLYSEMY -- Reducing Polyvalency in Writing Systems: From Egyptian to Meroitic (Claude Rilly) -- Difficult Hieroglyphs and Unreadable Demotic? How the Ancient Egyptians Dealt with the Complexities of their Script (Joachim Friedrich Quack) -- Maya Writing: Synonyms and Homonyms, Polyvalency and Polysemy (Erik Boot) -- In the Interstices of Representation: Ludic Writing and the Locus of Polysemy in the Chinese Sign (Wolfgang Behr) -- TOWARDS ANOTHER SCRIPT -- Egyptian Writing for Non-Egyptian Languages and Vice Versa: A Short Overview (Joachim Friedrich Quack) -- The Caroline Islands Script: A Linguistic Confrontation (Alex de Voogt) -- Writing Dance (Joukje Kolff) -- Author Index -- Language (Group) and Script Index -- Subject Index.