Writing in Focus / / ed. by Florian Coulmas, Konrad Ehlich.

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• MitwirkendeR: COULMAS, FLORIAN,; EHLICH, KONRAD,; EISENBERG, PETER,; ELWERT, GEORG,; FERREIRO, EMILIA,; GIESECKE, MICHAEL,; GOODY, JACK,; GÜNTHER, HARTMUT,; HAAS, WILLIAM,; HARPER, HELEN,; HAZOUMÉ, MARC LAURENT,; HILDYARD, ANGELA,; HOLENSTEIN, ELMAR,; KOLERS, PAUL Α.,; LUDWIG, OTTO,; MARTLEW, MARGARET,; OLSON, DAVID R.,; PREM, HANNS J.,; RIESE, BERTHOLD,; SEGERT, STANISLAV,; STEINBERG, DANNY D.,; TCHITCHI, TOUSSAINT,; WILHELM, GERNOT,; WINTER, WERNER,
• HerausgeberIn: Coulmas, Florian,; Ehlich, Konrad,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]; ©1983
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: Reprint 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 24
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (405 p.) :; Num. figs. and tabs.

Table of Contents

• I-VIII
• Introduction
• Part One. Linguistic aspects of writing
• Determining the level of a script
• Writing systems and written language
• Double articulation in writing
• Writing system and morphology. Some orthographic regularities of German
• Part Two. Historical aspects of writing
• Literacy and achivement in the Ancient World
• Development of writing as social problem solving
• Decipherment of forgotten writing systems: Two different approaches
• Reconstructing the phonology of dead languages
• Autochthonous American writing systems: The Aztec and Maya examples
• Le développment d’un alphabet national dans une communauté multilingue
• Adult literacy in a context of cultural revolution: Structural parallels of the literacy process in sixteenth-century Germany and present-day Bénin
• Tradition and innovation in alphabet making
• Writing and literacy in China
• Part Three. Psychological aspects of writing
• The development of writing: Communication and cognition
• The development of literacy: A complex psychological problem
• Literacy and the comprehension and expression of literal meaning
• Teaching written language as a first language to a deaf boy
• The role of meaning and linearity in reading
• Polarization of reading performance
• Index of subjects
• Index of names