Writing Systems and Their Use

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An Overview of Grapholinguistics

Dimitrios Meletis, Christa Dürscheid, Schweizerischer Nationalfonds (SNF)

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De Gruyter Mouton
07 October 2024

Writing systems, alphabets

Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]

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.

By: Dimitrios Meletis, Christa Dürscheid
Other: Schweizerischer Nationalfonds (SNF)
Imprint: De Gruyter Mouton
Country of Publication: Germany
Dimensions: Height: 230mm, Width: 155mm,
Weight: 641g
ISBN: 9783111631769
ISBN 10: 3111631761
Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]
Pages: 317
Publication Date: 07 October 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Dimitrios Meletis & Christa Dürscheid, beide University of Zurich, Switzerland.