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Standard languages : spoken and written / edited by W. Haas.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Mont Follick series ; v. 5.
- Mont Follick series ; v. 5
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Standard language.
- Language and languages--Orthography and spelling.
- Language and languages.
- Diglossia (Linguistics).
- Physical Description:
- viii, 192 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester : Manchester University Press ; Totowa, N.J. : Barnes and Noble, [1982]
- Contents:
- Introduction : on the normative character of language / W. Haas
- English orthography : a functionalist approach / J. Vachek
- Orthography and dialect : how can different regional pronunciations be accommodated in a single orthography? / D.J. Allerton
- Diglossia in German-speaking Switzerland / R.E. Keller
- Some consequences of diglossia / M.W. Sugathapala de Silva
- More than a matter of 'writing with the learned, pronouncing with the vulgar' : some preliminary observations on the Arabic Koine / T.F. Mitchell
- Diglossia in Greece / Margaret Alexiou.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographies.
- ISBN:
- 0389202916
- OCLC:
- 9577413
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