Hidden Bibliographic Details
| ISBN: | 0824812077
9780824812072
0824821077
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-298) and index.
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| Summary: | "Visible Speech is an attempt to set the record straight about the nature of writing. John DeFrancis, a noted specialist in the Chinese language, shows that writing can be based only upon a sound system and not upon any other linguistic level. He corrects the erroneous views of Chinese writing as pictographic, ideographic, logographic, or morphemic, and defends his conclusion that because of these misrepresentations, the nature of all writing continues to be misunderstood."--Jacket.
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| Other form: | Online version: DeFrancis, John, 1911-2009. Visible speech. Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, ©1989
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