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Author Johnson, Sally

Title Orthography as Social Action : Scripts, Spelling, Identity and Power
Published Boston : De Gruyter, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (402 pages)
Series Language and Social Processes [LSP] ; v. 3
Language and Social Processes LSP
Contents Chapter 1. Orthography as social action: Scripts, spelling, identity and power / Mark Sebba -- Chapter 2. Orthography, publics and legitimation crisis: The 1996 reform of German / Sally Johnson -- Chapter 3. Orthography and Orthodoxy in post-Soviet Russia / Brian Bennett -- Chapter 4. Reclamation, revalorization and re-Tatarization via changing Tatar orthographies / Suzanne Wertheim -- Chapter 5. Hindi is perfect, Urdu is messy: the discourse of delegitimation of Urdu in India / Rizwan Ahmad -- Chapter 6. Spelling and identity in the Southern Netherlands (1750-1830) / Rik Vosters, Gijsbert Rutten, Marijke van derWal and Wim Vandenbussche -- Chapter 7. Orthography as literacy: how Manx was "reduced to writing" / Mark Sebba -- Chapter 8. Orthography as practice: a Pennsylvania German case study / Jennifer Schlegel -- Chapter 9. Transcription in practice: nonstandard orthography / Alexandra Jaffe -- Chapter 10. Orthography and calligraphic ideology in an Iranian American heritage school / Amir Sharifi -- Chapter 11. Floating ideologies: Metamorphoses of graphic "Germanness" / Jurgen Spitzmuller -- Chapter 12. Whos punctuating what? Sociolinguistic variation in instant messaging / Lauren Squires -- Chapter 13. How to spell the vernacular: a multivariate study of Jamaican e-mails and blogs / Lars Hinrichs -- Chapter 14. "Greeklish": Transliteration practice and discourse in the context of computer-mediated digraphia / Jannis Androutsopoulos
Summary 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. Data is drawn from a wide range of languages and communicative contexts, ranging from schoolrooms to internet discussion boards. The focus is on the way that spelling as a practice and as a focus of ideological debate relates to social, political and cultural systems, both reflecting and sometimes creating identities as well as relationships of both equality and inequality
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Notes Print version record
Subject Language and languages -- Orthography and spelling.
Sociolinguistics.
sociolinguistics.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Alphabets & Writing Systems.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Spelling.
Language and languages -- Orthography and spelling
Sociolinguistics
Schriftsprache
Soziolinguistik
Rechtschreibung
Schreibvariante
Form Electronic book
Author Sebba, Mark
Jaffe, Alexandra
Androutsopoulos, Jannis
ISBN 9781614511038
1614511039