Orthography as social action : scripts, spelling, identity and power / edited by Alexandra Jaffe ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jaffe, Alexandra M. (Alexandra Mystra), 1960-

Series:

Language and social processes (Mouton de Gruyter) ; 3.

Language and social processes, 2192-2128 ; 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language and languages--Orthography and spelling.

Language and languages.

Sociolinguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (402 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, 2012.

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Chapter 1. Orthography as social action: Scripts, spelling, identity and power / Sebba, Mark

Chapter 2. Orthography, publics, and legitimation crisis: The 1996 reform of German / Johnson, Sally

Chapter 3. Orthography and Orthodoxy in post-Soviet Russia / Bennett, Brian P.

Chapter 4. Reclamation, revalorization, and re-Tatarization via changing Tatar orthographies / Wertheim, Suzanne

Chapter 5. Hindi is perfect, Urdu is messy: The discourse of delegitimation of Urdu in India / Ahmad, Rizwan

Chapter 6. Spelling and identity in the Southern Netherlands (1750-1830) / Vosters, Rik / Rutten, Gijsbert / der Wal, Marijke van / Vandenbussche, Wim

Chapter 7. Orthography as literacy: How Manx was "reduced to writing" / Sebba, Mark

Chapter 8. Orthography in practice: A Pennsylvania German case study / Schlegel, Jennifer

Chapter 9. Transcription in practice: Nonstandard orthography / Jaffe, Alexandra

Chapter 10. Orthography and calligraphic ideology in an Iranian-American heritage school / Sharifi, Amir

Chapter 11. Floating ideologies: Metamorphoses of graphic "Germanness" / Spitzmüller, Jürgen

Chapter 12. Whos punctuating what? Sociolinguistic variation in instant messaging / Squires, Lauren

Chapter 13. How to spell the vernacular: A multivariate study of Jamaican e-mails and blogs / Hinrichs, Lars

Chapter 14. "Greeklish": Transliteration practice and discourse in the context of computer-mediated digraphia / Androutsopoulos, Jannis

Subject index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613941749

9781283629294

1283629291

9781614511038

1614511039

OCLC:

811962852