Mark Sebba

Spelling and Society

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Discusses the cultural and political importance of spelling in modern society from a sociolinguistic viewpoint.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. August 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 462g
• ISBN-13: 9780521848459
• ISBN-10: 0521848458
• Artikelnr.: 22394987

Autorenporträt

Mark Sebba is Reader in Sociolinguistics and Language Contact in the Department of Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: society and orthography
1. Approaching orthography
2. Orthography as social practice
3. Language contact, linguists and the emergence of orthographies
4. 'Postcolonial' orthographies
5. Between language and dialect: orthography in unstandardised and standardising vernaculars
6. Reform or revolution: where angels fear to tread
7. Why do we spell?