Writing Systems and Their Use

An Overview of Grapholinguistics

Dimitrios Meletis, Christa Dürscheid (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

IX, 317 Seiten

2024
de Gruyter Mouton (Verlag)
978-3-11-163176-9 (ISBN)

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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.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	09.10.2024
Reihe/Serie	Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] ; 369
Zusatzinfo	21 b/w and 4 col. ill., 16 b/w tbl.
Verlagsort	Basel/Berlin/Boston
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 230 mm
Gewicht	641 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
Schlagworte	Grapholinguistics • Literacy • Orthography • Schriftlinguistik • Schriftsystem • Soziolinguistik • Writing Systems
ISBN-10	3-11-163176-1 / 3111631761
ISBN-13	978-3-11-163176-9 / 9783111631769
Zustand	Neuware