Advances in the Creation and Revision of Writing Systems / / ed. by Joshua A. Fishman.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics - <1990
• MitwirkendeR: Anderson, Ned,; Basso, Keith H.,; Berry, Jack,; Broeck, J. van den,; DeFrancis, John,; Fishman, Joshua A.,; Geerts, G.,; Gold, David L.,; Gregersen, Edgar A.,; Gundersen, Dag,; Henze, Paul B.,; Jaquith, James R.,; Kotei, S.I.A.,; Rabin, Chaim,; Tauli, Valter,; Venezky, Richard L.,; Verdoodt, A.,; Wurm, Stephen Α.,; Young, Robert W.,; Ó’ Murchú, Máirtin,
• HerausgeberIn: Fishman, Joshua A.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2015]; ©1977
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Edition: Reprint 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL] , 8
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (491 p.) :; 10 Taf.

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Preface: Advances in the Creation and Revision of Writing Systems
• Section One: Theoretical Overviews
• 1. ‘The Making of Alphabets’ Revisited
• 2. Speech and Spelling
• 3. Principles for the Design of Practical Writing Systems
• 4. The West African Autochthonous Alphabets: An Exercise in Comparative Palaeography
• Section Two: The Creation of Writing Systems
• 5. A Western Apache Writing System: The Symbols of Silas John
• 6. Ayn Plotdiytshet Obaytsay: A Practical Alphabet for Plattdeutsch in Spanish-Speaking Areas
• Section Three: The Revision of Classical Writing Systems
• 7. Language and Script Reform in China
• 8. Spelling Reform - Israel 1968
• Section Four: The Revision of Modern Writing Systems associated with National Political Establishments
• 9. Successes and Failures in Dutch Spelling Reform
• 10. Successes and Failures in the Reformation of Norwegian Orthography
• 11. Successes and Failures in the Modernization of Irish Spelling
• Section Five: The Revision of Modern Writing Systems not associated with National Political Establishments
• 12. The Phenomenological and Linguistic Pilgrimage of Yiddish : Some Examples of Functional and Structural Pidginization and Depidginization
• 13. Successes and Failures in the Standardization and Implementation of Yiddish Spelling and Romanization
• 14. Politics and Alphabets in Inner Asia
• 15. Successes and Failures in the Modernization of Hausa Spelling
• 16. The Spelling of New Guinea Pidgin (Neo-Melanesian)
• 17. Written Navajo : A Brief History
• Addendum: A Graduate Program in the Sociology of Language
• Index of Names
• Index of Subjects
• Backmatter