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Author Cook, Vivian

Title Routledge Handbook of the English Writing System
Published Taylor and Francis, 2016

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations
Series Routledge Handbooks in Linguistics
Contents COVER -- HALF TITLE -- TITLE PAGE -- COPYRIGHT PAGE -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- LIST OF FIGURES -- LIST OF TABLES -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- 1 INTRODUCTION -- 2 BACKGROUND TO THE ENGLISH WRITING SYSTEM -- PART I THEORY AND THE ENGLISH WRITING SYSTEM -- 3 ENGLISH AMONG THE WRITING SYSTEMS OF THE WORLD RIGHTS -- 4 LINGUISTS' DESCRIPTIONS OF THE ENGLISH WRITING SYSTEM -- 5 PHONOLOGY AND ENGLISH SPELLING -- 6 PUNCTUATION -- PART II THE HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE ENGLISH WRITING SYSTEM -- 7 THE ETYMOLOGICAL INPUTS INTO ENGLISH SPELLING -- 8 CHANGING FUNCTIONS: ENGLISH SPELLING BEFORE 1600 -- 9 MODERNIZATION AND STANDARDIZATION SINCE THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY -- 10 SPELLING VARIATION AS DOCUMENTED IN HISTORICAL DICTIONARIES: THE OED AS A TEST CASE -- 11 ACCENT VARIATION REFLECTED IN THE STANDARD WRITING SYSTEM OF ENGLISH -- PART III LEARNING AND TEACHING ENGLISH -- 12 CHILDREN'S FIRST LANGUAGE ACQUISITION OF THE ENGLISH WRITING SYSTEM -- 13 TEACHING LITERACY TO ENGLISH CHILDREN: POLICY AND PRACTICE -- 14 DYSLEXIA AND THE ENGLISH WRITING SYSTEM -- 15 THE STRUCTURE OF LITERACY TEACHING: A CASE STUDY FROM ENGLAND -- PART IV SOCIETY AND THE ENGLISH WRITING SYSTEM IN THE WORLD -- 16 SOCIOLINGUISTICS AND THE ENGLISH WRITING SYSTEM -- 17 THE EVOLUTION OF BRITISH AND AMERICAN SPELLING -- 18 THE SPELLING OF SCOTS: TRADITION, ADAPTATION AND REFORM -- 19 IRISH ENGLISH AND THE ENGLISH WRITING SYSTEM -- 20 EYE DIALECT AND PRONUNCIATION RESPELLING IN THE USA -- 21 THE ORTHOGRAPHY OF ENGLISH-LEXICON PIDGINS AND CREOLES -- 22 THE ENGLISH WRITING SYSTEM IN THE LINGUISTIC LANDSCAPES OF THE WORLD -- 23 JAPANESE USES OF THE ENGLISH WRITING SYSTEM: A CASE STUDY -- 24 SPELLING REFORM -- PART V PROCESSING THE WRITTEN SYMBOL -- 25 TYPOGRAPHY AND THE PRINTED ENGLISH TEXT -- 26 PROCESSING THE WRITTEN WORD
27 COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION AND THE ENGLISH WRITING SYSTEM -- 28 TEXTING AND OTHER MESSAGING:WRITTEN SYSTEM IN DIGITALLY MEDIATED VERNACULARS -- 29 SPELLCHECKERS -- INDEX
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Form Electronic book
ISBN 131736581X
9781317365815