Written Language Revisited.
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| Author / Creator: | Vachek, Josef. |
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| Imprint: | Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 1989. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (235 pages) |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11125085 |
| Summary: | Josef Vachek, one of the last living exponents of the Prague School, has dedicated 50 years of his life to the study of written language in all its aspects. This volume is a tribute to him on the occasion of his 80th birthday. It contains a selection of his papers written between 1945 and 1987. Contents Writing and phonetic transcription; Written language and printed language; The linguistic status of written utterances; The primacy of writing?; Segmentation of the flow of speech and written language; The stylistics of written language; Glossematics and written language; Paralinguistic sounds, written language and language development; Written language as a heterogenous system; The 1929 Praguian Theses, internal speech, and written language; Written language seen from the functionalist angle; On the problem of written language; The development of the written norm of English; Puristic tendencies in written language; Redundancy in written language with special regard to capitalization of graphemes; Spelling as an important linguistic concept; Pluridimensionality of written utterances and its consequences; Revaluations of redundant graphemes; Thoughts on some fifty years of research in written language. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (235 pages) |
| Bibliography: | ReferencesNoteson the development of the written norm of English; Notes; Some remarks on puristic tendenciesin written language; Notes; References; Remarks on redundancy in writtenlanguage with special regard tocapitalization of graphemes; Notes; References; Spelling as an important linguistic concept; Notes; References; On pluridimensionality of written utterances and its consequences; Notes; References; Some remarks on revaluations of redundant graphemes; Notes; References; Thoughts on some fifty years of research in written language; References; Index of persons; Index of subjects. |
| ISBN: | 9789027274106 902727410X 9027220646 9789027220646 |