The Cambridge Handbook of Historical Orthography

ISBN-13: 9781108487313 / Angielski

Marco Condorelli; Hanna Rutkowska

Opis

Written by a team of global scholars, this is the first Handbook covering the rapidly growing field of historical orthography. Comprehensive yet accessible, it is essential reading for academic researchers and students in the field, and in related areas such as morphology, syntax, historical linguistics, linguistic typology and sociolinguistics.

Recenzje

'This Handbook is an excellent resource that fills a gap in the literature on writing systems research. It provides a range of chapters that will be of interest to scholars and students of writing systems and orthography, including key background information and innovative advances in the field.' Christine Schreyer, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of British Columbia

Spis treści

Part I. Introduction: 1. Historical orthography: purposes, ambitions and boundaries Marco Condorelli and Hanna Rutkowska; Part II. Structures and Theories: 2. Classifying and comparing early writing systems Amalia E. Gnanadesikan; 3. Elements of writing systems Stefan Hartmann and Renata Szczepaniak; 4. Orthographic conventionality Aurelija Tamošiūnaitė; 5. Theoretical approaches to understanding writing systems Hanna Rutkowska; 6. Grapholinguistics Vuk-Tadija Barbarić; 7. Typologies of writing systems Terry Joyce; Part III. Organization and Development: 8. Comparative historical perspectives Per Ambrosiani and Elena Llamas-Pombo; 9. Systems and idiosyncrasies Benjamin W. Fortson IV; 10. Multilayeredness and multiaspectuality Justyna Rogos-Hebda; 11. Adapting alphabetic writing systems Anetta Luto-Kamińska; 12. Variation and change Michelle Waldispühl; 13. What is spelling standardization? Marco Condorelli; Part IV. Empirical Approaches: 14. Studying epigraphic writing Katherine McDonald and Emmanuel Dupraz; 15. Materiality of writing Giedrius Subačius; 16. Data collection and interpretation Anja Voeste; 17. Philological approaches Annina Seiler and Christine Wallis; 18. Exploring orthographic distribution Javier Calle-Martín and Juan Lorente-Sánchez; 19. Comparative and sociopragmatic methods Marija Lazar; 20. Reconstructing a pre-historic writing system Ester Salgarella; Part V. Explanatory Discussions: 21. Scribes and scribal practices Peter J. Grund; 22. Orthographic norms and authorities Carol Percy; 23. Networks of practice across English and Dutch corpora Marco Condorelli and Chris De Wulf; 24. Literacy and the singular history of Norwegian Agnete Nesse; 25. Authorship and gender Mel Evans; 26. Sociolinguistic variables in English orthography Juan Manuel Hernández-Campoy; 27. Sociolinguistic implications of orthographic variation in French Sandrine Tailleur; 28. Orthography and language contact Israel Sanz-Sánchez; 29. Discourse and sociopolitical issues Laura Villa Galán; 30. Transmission and diffusion Gijsbert Rutten, Iris Van de Voorde and Rik Vosters; 31. Analogy and extension Yishai Neuman; Bibliography; Subject index; Name index.