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Title Dialogue on dialect standardization / edited by Carrie Dyck [and four others]
Published Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014
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Description 1 online resource (200 pages) : illustrations, tables
Contents Intro -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- LIST OF TABLES -- CHAPTER ONE -- CHAPTER TWO -- CHAPTER THREE -- CHAPTER FOUR -- CHAPTER FIVE -- CHAPTER SIX -- CHAPTER SEVEN -- CHAPTER EIGHT -- CHAPTER NINE -- CHAPTER TEN -- CHAPTER ELEVEN -- REFERENCES -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX
Summary This volume provides a space for the development of dialogue between dialectologists, language community activists, and other researchers working on the development of orthographies regarding issues that arise during the creation of writing systems in places where there is dialect variation and an absence of writing systems, or where there is a writing system for a national language but not for the particular related language. The chapters in this volume address two major themes: first, the imperative for standardization is influenced by many social and political factors, including identity,
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 20, 2015)
Subject Language and languages -- Orthography and spelling.
Language and languages -- Orthography and spelling -- Study and teaching
Linguistics.
Sociolinguistics.
Writing systems, alphabets.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Alphabets & Writing Systems.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Spelling.
Language and languages -- Orthography and spelling
Language and languages -- Orthography and spelling -- Study and teaching
Form Electronic book
Author Dyck, Carrie, editor
ISBN 9781443872959
1443872954
1322607745
9781322607740