The Routledge Handbook of the English Writing System

Herausgeber: Cook, Vivian; Ryan, Des

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This Routledge Handbookprovides a comprehensive account of the English Writing System, both in its current iteration and highlighting the developing trends that will influence its future. Thirty chapters written by specialists from around the world cover core linguistic and psychological aspects, and also include areas from such other disciplines as typography and computer mediated communication, providingessential reading for researchers and postgraduate students working in this area.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 564
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 249mm x 178mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 1134g
• ISBN-13: 9780415715973
• ISBN-10: 0415715970
• Artikelnr.: 43679162

Autorenporträt

Vivian Cook is Emeritus Professor of Applied Linguistics at Newcastle University, UK, and founding co-editor of the journal Writing Systems Research. Des Ryan works at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Background to the English Writing System
Theory and the English writing system
Chapter 3. English among the world's writing systems
Chapter 4. Modern theories of English spelling
Chapter 5. Phonology and English spelling
Chapter 6. Punctuation
The history and development of the EWS
Chapter 7. The etymological inputs into English spelling
Chapter 8. Changing Functions: English Spelling before 1600
Chapter 9. Modernization and standardization since the 17th century
Chapter 10. Historical spelling variation as documented in historical
dictionaries: the OED as a test case
Chapter 11. Accent variation reflected in the standard writing system of
English
Learning and teaching English
Chapter 12. Children's first language acquisition of the English writing
system
Chapter 13. Teaching literacy to English children; policy and practice
Chapter 14. Dyslexia and the English writing Liory Fern Pollak and Jackie
Masterson
Chapter 15. The structure of Literacy teaching: a case study from England
Society and the English writing system in the world Chapter 16.
Sociolinguistics and the English writing system
Chapter 17. The evolution of British and American style spelling
Chapter 18. The spelling of Scots: tradition, adaptation and reform
Chapter 19. Irish English and the English Writing System
Chapter 20. Eye Dialect and Pronunciation Respelling in the USA
Chapter 21. The Orthography of English-lexicon Pidgins and Creoles
Chapter 22. The English writing system in the linguistic landscapes of the
world
Chapter 23. Japanese users of the English writing system: a case study
Chapter 24. Spelling reform
Processing the written symbol
Chapter 25. Typography and the printed English text
Chapter 26. Processing the written word
Chapter 27. Computer-mediated communication and the English writing system
Chapter 28. Texting and other messaging
Chapter 29. Spell checkers