Orthography as Social Action : : Scripts, Spelling, Identity and Power /

Orthography as Social Action : : Scripts, Spelling, Identity and Power / / ed. by Jannis Androutsopoulos, Mark Sebba, Alexandra Jaffe, Sally Johnson.

The chapters in this edited volume explore the sociolinguistic implications of orthographic and scriptural practices in a diverse range of communicative contexts, ranging from schoolrooms to internet discussion boards. The focus is on the way that scriptural practices both index and constitute socia...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
MitwirkendeR:
Ahmad, Rizwan,
Androutsopoulos, Jannis,
Bennett, Brian P.,
Hinrichs, Lars,
Jaffe, Alexandra,
Johnson, Sally,
Rutten, Gijsbert,
Schlegel, Jennifer,
Sebba, Mark,
Sharifi, Amir,
Spitzmüller, Jürgen,
Squires, Lauren,
Vandenbussche, Wim,
Vosters, Rik,
Wertheim, Suzanne,
der Wal, Marijke van,
HerausgeberIn:
Androutsopoulos, Jannis,
Jaffe, Alexandra,
Johnson, Sally,
Sebba, Mark,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2012]
©2012
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
Series:Language and Social Processes [LSP] , 3
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Physical Description:1 online resource (396 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • 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

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