Visible Speech : : The Diverse Oneness of Writing Systems / / John DeFrancis.
Visible Speech is an attempt to set the record straight about the nature of writing. John DeFrancis, a noted specialist in the Chinese language, shows that writing can be based only upon a sound system and not upon any other linguistic level. He corrects the erroneous views of Chinese writing as pic...
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DeFrancis, John, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Visible Speech : The Diverse Oneness of Writing Systems / John DeFrancis. Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2022] ©1989 1 online resource (336 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- FIGURES -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- I WRITING IN COMMUNICATIVE CONTEXT -- 1. Kinds of Communication -- 2. What Is Writing? -- II FULL WRITING SYSTEMS -- 3. Syllabic Systems -- 4. Consonantal Systems -- 5. Alphabetic Systems -- III WRITING IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE -- 6. A Critique of Writing about Writing -- 7. The Essential Oneness of Full Writing -- NOTES -- GLOSSARY -- REFERENCES -- INDEX restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Visible Speech is an attempt to set the record straight about the nature of writing. John DeFrancis, a noted specialist in the Chinese language, shows that writing can be based only upon a sound system and not upon any other linguistic level. He corrects the erroneous views of Chinese writing as pictographic, ideographic, logographic, or morphemic, and defends his conclusion that because of these misrepresentations, the nature of all writing continues to be misunderstood. Using the writing systems of Sumerian, Egyptian, Arabic, Japanese, Korean, Greek, Mayan, and English, among others, to illustrate his points, Dr. DeFrancis stresses their basic identity as representatives of visible speech, while noting their secondary differences as manifested in their diverse script forms. He proposes a new classification of writing systems based on this theme of diversity and oneness, and makes an impassioned case for the essential phonetic component of all writing. This book reflects the author's sound scholarship and novel insights, which place it in the forefront with such classics on writing as those by Gelb, Diringer, Cohen, Février, and Jensen. The readable style aims at a general audience interested in understanding the nature of the symbols that first strike the eye, while the academic research involved makes it an indispensable work for scholars in the many fields related to language and linguistics. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jun 2022) Writing. Written communication. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Writing / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Hawaii Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000 9783110564150 https://doi.org/10.1515/9780824841621 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780824841621 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780824841621/original |
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- FIGURES -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- I WRITING IN COMMUNICATIVE CONTEXT -- 1. Kinds of Communication -- 2. What Is Writing? -- II FULL WRITING SYSTEMS -- 3. Syllabic Systems -- 4. Consonantal Systems -- 5. Alphabetic Systems -- III WRITING IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE -- 6. A Critique of Writing about Writing -- 7. The Essential Oneness of Full Writing -- NOTES -- GLOSSARY -- REFERENCES -- INDEX |
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