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Advances in the Creation and Revision of Writing Systems /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Berlin ; Boston :
De Gruyter Mouton,
[2015]
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| Colección: | Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL] ;
8 |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface: Advances in the Creation and Revision of Writing Systems
- Section One: Theoretical Overviews
- 1. 'The Making of Alphabets' Revisited
- 2. Speech and Spelling
- 3. Principles for the Design of Practical Writing Systems
- 4. The West African Autochthonous Alphabets: An Exercise in Comparative Palaeography
- Section Two: The Creation of Writing Systems
- 5. A Western Apache Writing System: The Symbols of Silas John
- 6. Ayn Plotdiytshet Obaytsay: A Practical Alphabet for Plattdeutsch in Spanish-Speaking Areas
- Section Three: The Revision of Classical Writing Systems
- 7. Language and Script Reform in China
- 8. Spelling Reform
- Israel 1968
- Section Four: The Revision of Modern Writing Systems associated with National Political Establishments
- 9. Successes and Failures in Dutch Spelling Reform
- 10. Successes and Failures in the Reformation of Norwegian Orthography
- 11. Successes and Failures in the Modernization of Irish Spelling
- Section Five: The Revision of Modern Writing Systems not associated with National Political Establishments
- 12. The Phenomenological and Linguistic Pilgrimage of Yiddish : Some Examples of Functional and Structural Pidginization and Depidginization
- 13. Successes and Failures in the Standardization and Implementation of Yiddish Spelling and Romanization
- 14. Politics and Alphabets in Inner Asia
- 15. Successes and Failures in the Modernization of Hausa Spelling
- 16. The Spelling of New Guinea Pidgin (Neo-Melanesian)
- 17. Written Navajo : A Brief History
- Addendum: A Graduate Program in the Sociology of Language
- Index of Names
- Index of Subjects
- Backmatter.