02474nam 2200409 450 991058022220332120230510173242.0(CKB)5580000000342275(NjHacI)995580000000342275(EXLCZ)99558000000034227520230510d2022 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierWriting systems and their use an overview of grapholinguistics /Dimitrios Meletis, Christa DürscheidBerlin :De Gruyter Mouton,2022.1 online resource (ix, 317 pages) illustrationsTrends in linguistics. Studies and monographs3-11-075789-3 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 centering 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.Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs.Writing Systems and Their Use Literacy programsLiteracyLiteracy programs.Literacy.302.2244Meletis Dimitrios1255009Dürscheid ChristaNjHacINjHaclBOOK9910580222203321Writing systems and their use3362861UNINA