33.2515, Books: Writing Systems and Their Use: Meletis, Dürscheid

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Subject: 33.2515, Books: Writing Systems and Their Use: Meletis, Dürscheid

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Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2022 15:53:09
From: Birgit Sievert [Birgit.Sievert at degruyter.com]
Subject: Writing Systems and Their Use: Meletis, Dürscheid

 


Title: Writing Systems and Their Use 
Subtitle: An Overview of Grapholinguistics 
Series Title: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs  

Publication Year: 2022 
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
	   https://cloud.newsletter.degruyter.com/mouton
	

Book URL: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110757835/html 


Author: Dimitrios Meletis
Author: Christa Dürscheid

Electronic: ISBN:  9783110757835 Pages: 326 Price: ----   Comment: Open Access
Hardback: ISBN:  9783110757774 Pages: 326 Price: U.S. $ 118.99


Abstract:

Grapholinguistics, the multifaceted study of writing systems, is growing
increasingly popular, yet to date no coherent account covering and connecting
its major branches exists. This book now gives an overview of the core
theoretical and empirical questions of this field. A treatment of the
structure of writing systems—their relation to speech and language, their
material features, linguistic functions, and norms, as well as the different
types in which they come—is complemented by perspectives centring on the use
of writing, incorporating psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic issues such as
reading processes or orthographic variation as social action. Examples stem
from a variety of diverse systems such as Chinese, English, Japanese, Arabic,
Thai, German, and Korean, which allows defining concepts in a broadly
applicable way and thereby constructing a comparative grapholinguistic
framework that provides readers with important tools for studying any writing
system. The book emphasizes that grapholinguistics is a discipline in its own
right, inviting discussion and further research in this up-and-coming field as
well as an overdue integration of writing into general linguistic discussion.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Writing Systems


Written In: English  (eng)

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