The Routledge Handbook of the English Writing System

ISBN-13: 9780367581565 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 544 str.

Vivian Cook; Des Ryan

Opis

This Routledge Handbook provides a comprehensive account of the English Writing System, both in its current iteration and highlighting the developing trends that will influence its future.

Spis treści

Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Background to the English Writing System

Theory and the English writing system
Chapter 3. English among the world's writing systems
Chapter 4. Modern theories of English spelling
Chapter 5. Phonology and English spelling
Chapter 6. Punctuation

The history and development of the EWS
Chapter 7. The etymological inputs into English spelling
Chapter 8. Changing Functions: English Spelling before 1600
Chapter 9. Modernization and standardization since the 17th century
Chapter 10. Historical spelling variation as documented in historical dictionaries: the OED as a test case
Chapter 11. Accent variation reflected in the standard writing system of English

Learning and teaching English
Chapter 12. Children’s first language acquis­ition of the English writing system
Chapter 13. Teaching literacy to English children; policy and practice
Chapter 14. Dyslexia and the English writing Liory Fern Pollak and Jackie Masterson
Chapter 15. The structure of Literacy teaching: a case study from England

Society and the English writing system in the world
Chapter 16. Sociolinguistics and the English writing system
Chapter 17. The evolution of British and American style spelling
Chapter 18. The spelling of Scots: tradition, adaptation and reform
Chapter 19. Irish English and the English Writing System
Chapter 20. Eye Dialect and Pronunciation Respelling in the USA
Chapter 21. The Orthography of English-lexicon Pidgins and Creoles
Chapter 22. The English writing system in the linguistic landscapes of the world
Chapter 23. Japanese users of the English writing system: a case study
Chapter 24. Spelling reform

Processing the written symbol
Chapter 25. Typography and the printed English text
Chapter 26. Processing the written word
Chapter 27. Computer-mediated communication and the English writing system
Chapter 28. Texting and other messaging
Chapter 29. Spell checkers

O autorze

Vivian Cook is Emeritus Professor of Applied Linguistics at Newcastle University, UK, and founding co-editor of the journal Writing Systems Research.

Des Ryan works at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.