Tyranny of writing : ideologies of the written word /

Tyranny of writing : ideologies of the written word /

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Imprint:London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.
Description:1 online resource
Language:English
Series:Advances in sociolinguistics
Advances in sociolinguistics.
Subject:Written communication -- Social aspects.
Literacy -- Social aspects.
Anthropological linguistics.
Sociolinguistics.
Sociology & anthropology.
Sociolinguistics.
PSYCHOLOGY -- Social Psychology.
Anthropological linguistics.
Literacy -- Social aspects.
Sociolinguistics.
Written communication -- Social aspects.
Electronic books.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12589479
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Other authors / contributors:Weth, Constanze, editor.
Juffermans, Kasper, editor.
ISBN:9781474292450
1474292453
9781474292436
1474292437
1474292461
9781474292467
9781474292443
1474292445
9781474292467
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary:"This book examines the powerful role of writing in society. The invention of writing, independently at various places and times in history, always stood at the cradle of powerful civilizations. It is impossible to imagine modern life without writing. As individuals and social groups we hold high expectations of its potential for societal and personal development. Globally, huge resources have been and are being invested in promoting literacy worldwide. So what could possibly be tyrannical about writing? The title is inspired by Ferdinand de Saussure's argument against writing as an object of linguistic research and what he called la tyrannie de la lettre. His critique denounced writing as an imperfect, distorted image of speech that obscures our view of language and its structure. The chapters of the book, written by experts in language and literacy studies, go beyond this and explore tyrannical aspects of writing in society through history and around the world: from Medieval Novgorod, the European Renaissance and 19th-century France and Germany over colonial Sudan to postcolonial Sri Lanka and Senegal and present-day Hong Kong and Central China to the Netherlands and Spain. The metaphor of 'tyranny of writing' serves as a heuristic for exploring ideologies of language and literacy in culture and society and tensions and contradictions between the written and the spoken word."--Bloomsbury Publishing
Other form:Print version: Tyranny of writing. London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2018 9781474292467
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. Revisiting the ̀Tyranny of Writing' / Florian Coulmas
  • 2. How to Write a Birch-Bark Letter: Vernacular Orthography in Medieval Novgorod / Daniel Buncic
  • 3. End of the Standard Language: The Rise and Fall of a European Language Culture / Joop van der Horst
  • 4. Tyranny of Orthography: Multilingualism and Frenchification at Primary Schools in Late-Nineteenth-Century France / Manuela Bohm
  • 5. Ideologies of Language and Literacy in the German Educational Reform Movement at the End of the Long Nineteenth Century / Ulrich Mehlem
  • 6. When God is a Linguist: Missionary Orthographies as a Site of Social Differentiation and the Technology of Location / Sinfree Makoni
  • 7. Standard English, Cricket, Nationalism and Tyrannies of Writing in Sri Lanka / Harshana Rambukwella
  • 8. Escaping the Tyranny of Writing: West African Regimes of Writing as a Model for Multilingual Literacy / Friederike Lupke
  • 9. Writing Chinese: A Challenge for Cantonese-L1 and South Asian Hongkongers / David C.S. Li
  • 10. Fangyan and The Linguistic Landscapes of Authenticity: Normativity and Innovativity of Writing in Globalizing China / Xuan Wang
  • 11. Dialect Authenticity Upside Down: Brabantish Writing Practices of a Black Comedian on Twitter / Jos Swanenberg
  • 12. Salty Politics and Linguistics in the Balearic Islands: Tracing a Non-Standard Iconization in Metalinguistic Facebook Communities / Lucas Duane.

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