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Advances in the Creation and Revision of Writing Systems
Advances in the Creation and Revision of Writing Systems
- autor (hrsg.)
- Fishman, Joshua A.
- titel
- Advances in the Creation and Revision of Writing Systems.
- reihe
- Contributions to the Sociology of Language (CSL)
- band
- 8
- herausgeber der reihe
- Fishman, Joshua A.
- verlag
- Mouton & Co.
- ort
- The Hague
- datum
- auflage
- 1
- isbn
- 978-9027975522
- neuauflage
- , De Gruyter Mouton
- ausstattung, umfang
- gebunden, 519 s.
Inhalt
Preface
| Joshua A. Fishman | Advances in the Creation and Revision of Writing Systems | XI | |
SECTION 1: THEORETICAL OVERVIEWS |
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| 1. | Jack Berry | "The Making of Alphabets' Revisited | 3 |
| 2. | Valter Tauli | Speech and Spelling | 17 |
| 3. | Richard L. Venezky | Principles for the Design of Practical Writing Systems | 37 |
| 4. | S. I. A. Kotei | The West African Autochthonous Alphabets: An Exercise in Comparative Palaeography | 55 |
SECTION II: THE CREATION OF WRITING SYSTEMS |
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| 5. | Keith H. Basso and Ned Anderson | A Western Apache Writing System: The Symbols of Silas John | 77 |
| 6. | James R. Jaquith | Ayn Plotdiytshet Obaytsay: A Practical Alphabet for Platt- deutsch in Spanish-Speaking Areas | 105 |
SECTION III: THE REVISION OF CLASSICAL WRITING SYSTEMS |
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| 7. | John DeFrancis | Language and Script Reform in China | 121 |
| 8. | Chaim Rabin | Spelling Reform - Israel 1968 | 149 |
SECTION IV: THE REVISION OF MODERN WRITING SYSTEMS ASSOCIATED WITH NATIONAL POLITICAL ESTABLISHMENTS |
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| 9. | G. Geerts, J. van den Broeck, and A. Verdoodt | Successes and Failures in Dutch Spelling Reform | 179 |
| 10. | Dag Gundersen | Successes and Failures in the Reformation of Norwegian Orthography | 247 |
| 11. | Máirtín Ó Murchú | Successes and Failures in the Modernization of Irish Spelling | 267 |
SECTION V: THE REVISION OF MODERN WRITING SYSTEMS NOT ASSOCIATED WITH NATIONAL POLITICAL ESTABLISHMENTS |
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| 12. | Joshua A. Fishman | The Phenomenological and Linguistic Pilgrimage of Yiddish: Some Examples of Functional and Structural Pidginization and Depidginization | 293 |
| 13. | David L. Gold | Successes and Failures in the Standardization and Implementation of Yiddish Spelling and Romanization | 307 |
| 14. | Paul B. Henze | Politics and Alphabets in Inner Asia | 371 |
| 15. | Edgar A. Gregersen | Successes and Failures in the Modernization of Hausa Spelling | 421 |
| 16. | Stephen A. Wurm | The Spelling of New Guinea Pidgin (Neo-Melanesian) | 441 |
| 17. | Robert W. Young | Written Navajo: A Brief History | 459 |
Addendum |
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| Joshua A. Fishman | A Graduate Program in the Sociology of Language Index of Names | 471 | |