Mark Sebba

Spelling and Society

The Culture and Politics of Orthography Around the World

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

2007 text discussing the cultural and political importance of spelling in modern society from a sociolinguistic viewpoint.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. November 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 312g
• ISBN-13: 9780521300759
• ISBN-10: 0521300754
• Artikelnr.: 34928804

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: society and orthography
1. Approaching orthography
2. Orthography as social practice
3. Language contact, linguists and the emergence of orthographies
4. 'Postcolonial' orthographies
5. Between language and dialect: orthography in unstandardised and standardising vernaculars
6. Reform or revolution: where angels fear to tread
7. Why do we spell?