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

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Author / Creator:Johnson, Sally.
Imprint:Boston : De Gruyter, 2012.
Description:1 online resource (402 pages)
Language:English
Series:Language and Social Processes [LSP] ; v. 3
Language and Social Processes LSP.
Subject:Language and languages -- Orthography and spelling.
Sociolinguistics.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Alphabets & Writing Systems.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Spelling.
Language and languages -- Orthography and spelling.
Sociolinguistics.
Schriftsprache
Soziolinguistik
Rechtschreibung
Schreibvariante
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11188381
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Other authors / contributors:Sebba, Mark.
Jaffe, Alexandra.
Androutsopoulos, Jannis.
ISBN:9781614511038
1614511039
9781614511366
1614511365
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Print version record.
Summary:This edited volume brings together leading authors in the field of sociolinguistics who explore the sociolinguistic implications of spelling, punctuation and other graphic aspects of writing. Data is drawn from a wide range of languages and communicative contexts, ranging from schoolrooms to internet discussion boards. The focus is on the way that spelling as a practice and as a focus of ideological debate relates to social, political and cultural systems, both reflecting and sometimes creating identities as well as relationships of both equality and inequality.
Other form:Print version: 9781614511366
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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 social hierarchies, identities and relationships and in some cases, become the focus for public language ideological debates. Capitalizing on the now robust body of literature on orthographic choice and debate in sociolinguistics and anthropological linguistics, the volume addresses a number of cross-cutting themes that connect orthographic practices to areas of contemporary interest in sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology. These themes include: the different social implications of self vs. other representation and the permeability of the personal/social and the public/private; how scriptural practices ("inscription") serve as sites for social discipline; the historical and intertextual frameworks for the meaning potentials of orthographic choice (relating to issues of genre and style); and writing as a broader semiotic field: the visual and esthetic dimensions of texts and metalinguistic "play" in spelling and its ambiguous implications for writer stance.

Physical Description:1 online resource (402 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN:9781614511038
1614511039
9781614511366
1614511365