Library Catalog
Amazon cover image
Image from Amazon.com

Orthography as Social Action : Scripts, Spelling, Identity and Power / ed. by Jannis Androutsopoulos, Mark Sebba, Alexandra Jaffe, Sally Johnson.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Language and Social Processes [LSP] ; 3Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2012]Copyright date: ©2012Description: 1 online resource (396 p.)Content type:
Media type:
Carrier type:
ISBN:
  • 9781614511366
  • 9781614511038
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 411 23
LOC classification:
  • P240.2
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Chapter 1. Orthography as social action: Scripts, spelling, identity and power -- Chapter 2. Orthography, publics, and legitimation crisis: The 1996 reform of German -- Chapter 3. Orthography and Orthodoxy in post-Soviet Russia -- Chapter 4. Reclamation, revalorization, and re-Tatarization via changing Tatar orthographies -- Chapter 5. Hindi is perfect, Urdu is messy:The discourse of delegitimation of Urdu in India -- Chapter 6. Spelling and identity in the Southern Netherlands (1750–1830) -- Chapter 7. Orthography as literacy: How Manx was “reduced to writing” -- Chapter 8. Orthography in practice: A Pennsylvania German case study -- Chapter 9. Transcription in practice: Nonstandard orthography -- Chapter 10. Orthography and calligraphic ideology in an Iranian-American heritage school -- Chapter 11. Floating ideologies: Metamorphoses of graphic “Germanness” -- Chapter 12. Whos punctuating what? Sociolinguistic variation in instant messaging -- Chapter 13. How to spell the vernacular: A multivariate study of Jamaican e-mails and blogs -- Chapter 14. “Greeklish”: Transliteration practice and discourse in the context of computer-mediated digraphia -- Subject index
Summary: 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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number URL Status Notes Barcode
eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9781614511038

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Chapter 1. Orthography as social action: Scripts, spelling, identity and power -- Chapter 2. Orthography, publics, and legitimation crisis: The 1996 reform of German -- Chapter 3. Orthography and Orthodoxy in post-Soviet Russia -- Chapter 4. Reclamation, revalorization, and re-Tatarization via changing Tatar orthographies -- Chapter 5. Hindi is perfect, Urdu is messy:The discourse of delegitimation of Urdu in India -- Chapter 6. Spelling and identity in the Southern Netherlands (1750–1830) -- Chapter 7. Orthography as literacy: How Manx was “reduced to writing” -- Chapter 8. Orthography in practice: A Pennsylvania German case study -- Chapter 9. Transcription in practice: Nonstandard orthography -- Chapter 10. Orthography and calligraphic ideology in an Iranian-American heritage school -- Chapter 11. Floating ideologies: Metamorphoses of graphic “Germanness” -- Chapter 12. Whos punctuating what? Sociolinguistic variation in instant messaging -- Chapter 13. How to spell the vernacular: A multivariate study of Jamaican e-mails and blogs -- Chapter 14. “Greeklish”: Transliteration practice and discourse in the context of computer-mediated digraphia -- Subject index

restricted access online access with authorization star

http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec

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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Feb 2023)