Advances in the Creation and Revision of Writing Systems (Contributions to the Sociology of Language [Csl])

CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully selected book-length publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It approaches the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches, theoretical and empirical, supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of linguists, language teachers of all interests, sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, historians etc. to the development of the sociology of language. Preface Advances in the Creation and Revision of Writing Systems SECTION I: THEORETICAL OVERVIEWS 1. ‘The Making of Alphabets’ Revisited 2. Speech and Spelling 3. Principles for the Design of Practical Writing Systems 4. The West African Autochthonous Alphabets: An Exercise in Comparative Palaeography SECTION II: THE CREATION OF WRITING SYSTEMS 5. A Western Apache Writing System: The Symbols of Silas John 6. Ayn Plotdiytshet Obaytsay: A Practical Alphabet for Platt- deutsch in Spanish-Speaking Areas SECTION III: THE REVISION OF CLASSICAL WRITING SYSTEMS 7. Language and Script Reform in China 8. Spelling Reform - Israel 1968 SECTION IV : THE REVISION OF MODERN WRITING SYSTEMS ASSOCIATED WITH NATIONAL POLITICAL ESTABLISHMENTS 9. Successes and Failures in Dutch Spelling Reform 10. Successes and Failures in the Reformation of Norwegian Orthography 11. Successes and Failures in the Modernization of Irish Spelling SECTION v: THE REVISION OF MODERN WRITING SYSTEMS NOT ASSOCIATED WITH NATIONAL POLITICAL ESTABLISHMENTS 12. The Phenomenological and Linguistic Pilgrimage of Yiddish: Some Examples of Functional and Structural Pidginization and Depidginization 13. Successes and Failures in the Standardization and Implementation of Yiddish Spelling and Romanization 14. Politics and Alphabets in Inner Asia 15. Successes and Failures in the Modernization of Hausa Spelling 16. The Spelling of New Guinea Pidgin (Neo-Melanesian) 17. Written Navajo : A Brief History Addendum A Graduate Program in the Sociology of Language Index of Names The Contributions to the Sociology of Language series features publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It addresses the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches - theoretical and empirical - supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of scholars interested in language in society from a broad range of disciplines - anthropology, education, history, linguistics, political science, and sociology. To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Natalie Fecher. The Phenomenological And Linguistic Pilgrimage Of Yiddish: Some Examples Of Functional And Structural Pidgimization And Depidginization / Joshua A. Fishman -- Successes And Failures In The Standardization And Implementation Of Yiddish Spelling And Romanization / David L. Gold. Edited By Joshua A. Fishman. Includes Indexes. Bibliography: P. Xxiii-xxviii.