This Routledge Handbook provides a comprehensive account of the English Writing System, both in its current iteration and highlighting the developing trends that will influence its future....Loe edasi...
The Chinese Writing System in Asia: An Interdisciplinary Perspective integrates a diverse range of disciplinary approaches in examining how the Chinese script represents and actively shapes personal and social identities in and beyond Asia....Loe edasi...
This book is an exploratory adventure to defamiliarize calligraphy, especially Persian Nastaliq calligraphic letterforms, and to look beyond the tradition that has always considered calligraphy as pursuant to and subordinate to linguistic practices....Loe edasi...
Jannis K. Androutsopoulos, Mark Sebba, Alexandra Jaffe, Sally Johnson
Sari: Language and Social Processes [LSP]
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-Jun-2012, Kirjastus: Mouton de Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9781614511038)
This edited volume brings together leading authors in the field of sociolinguistics who explore the sociolinguistic implications of spelling, punctuation and other graphic aspects of writing....Loe edasi...
This is a handy reference to the main scripts and alphabets of the world. Forty alphabets are presented and discussed, with entries ranging from the mainstream, such as Amharic, Chinese and Thai, to the more obscure....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Oct-2008, Kirjastus: Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd), ISBN-13: 9781444304671)
In a world of rapid technological advancements, it can be easy to forget that writing is the original Information Technology, created to transcend the limitations of human memory and to defy time and space. The Writing Revolution picks apart the...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 17-Jun-2008, Kirjastus: Mouton de Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783110207859)
Presents a grammatical description of the Cameroonian Bantu language Eton, spoken just north of the capital Yaounde. This study provides an analysis of Etons sound structures and of the structure of words and clauses, both simple and complex, compl...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Apr-2008, Kirjastus: Mouton de Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783110207101)
Presents 12 papers on an approach to the analysis of writing systems. This volume introduces quantitative methods into this area of research. It gives an overview about quantitative properties of symbols and of writing systems, introduces methods of...Loe edasi...
