Orthography as Social Action : Scripts, Spelling, Identity and Power.
Title:
Orthography as Social Action : Scripts, Spelling, Identity and Power.
Author:
Jaffe, Alexandra.
ISBN:
9781614511038
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (396 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 -- Chapter 2. Orthography, publics and legitimation crisis: The 1996 reform of German -- Chapter 3. Orthography and Orthodoxy in post-Soviet Russia -- Chapter 4. Reclamation, revalorization and re-Tatarization via changing Tatar orthographies -- Chapter 5. Hindi is perfect, Urdu is messy: The discourse of delegitimation of Urdu in India -- Chapter 6. Spelling and identity in the Southern Netherlands (1750-1830) -- Chapter 7. Orthography as literacy: How Manx was "reduced to writing" -- Chapter 8. Orthography in practice: A Pennsylvania German case study -- Chapter 9. Transcription in practice: Nonstandard orthography -- Chapter 10. Orthography and calligraphic ideology in an Iranian-American heritage school -- Chapter 11. Floating ideologies: Metamorphoses of graphic "Germanness" -- Chapter 12. Whos punctuating what? Sociolinguistic variation in instant messaging -- Chapter 13. How to spell the vernacular: A multivariate study of Jamaican e-mails and blogs -- Chapter 14. "Greeklish": Transliteration practice and discourse in the context of computer-mediated digraphia -- Subject index.
Abstract:
The series contributes to the development of promising new approaches to the sociolinguistic, sociohistorical and linguistic anthropological study of social issues that centrally involve language. In particular, while still addressing the fundamental insights gleaned from variationist studies, foremost among which is the open-ended, heterogeneous nature of human language in all its varieties, it focuses on new, data-driven methodologies, quantitative and qualitative, in the social and cultural study of language that go beyond the more traditional concerns of sociolinguistics (for example, social networks, communities of practice, global population movements, the historical and present-day significance of demography for situations of language contact, the spatial dimensions of language, language and ideology, new dialect formation, historical sociolinguistics). The series includes monographs as well as edited volumes.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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