Writing Systems and Their Use

Dimitrios Meletis; Christa Dürscheid

Open Access Published by De Gruyter Mouton 2022

Writing Systems and Their Use

An Overview of Grapholinguistics

Dimitrios Meletis and Christa Dürscheid

Funded by: Schweizerischer Nationalfonds (SNF)

Volume 369 in the series Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110757835

Overview
Contents

About this book

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.

Author information

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

Topics

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
1 Introduction Open Access Download PDF	1
2 Language, speech, and writing Open Access Download PDF	14
3 Graphetics Open Access Download PDF	56
4 Graphematics Open Access Download PDF	115
5 Orthography Open Access Download PDF	171
6 Writing system typology Open Access Download PDF	210
7 Conclusion and outlook Open Access Download PDF	270
References Open Access Download PDF	277
Subject index Open Access Download PDF	307
Name index Open Access Download PDF	315

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Audience: Scholars and Researchers of Linguistics, Semiotics, Psycholinguistics, Sociolinguistics, Anthropology, Cognitive Sciences
Pages
- Front matter: 9
- Main content: 317
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 21
- Coloured Illustrations: 4
- Tables: 16
Keywords: Writing Systems; Grapholinguistics; Literacy; Orthography

eBook

Published: June 21, 2022
ISBN: 9783110757835

Hardcover

Published: July 5, 2022
ISBN: 9783110757774