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Author:   Constanze Weth (University of Luxembourg, Belgium) ,  Dr Kasper Juffermans (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Weight:   0.490kg
ISBN:  

9781474292467

ISBN 10:   1474292461
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   25 January 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface 1. The tyranny of writing in language and society, Constanze Weth (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg) and Kasper Juffermans (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg) 2. Revisiting the 'tyranny of writing', Florian Coulmas (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany) 3. How to write a birch-bark letter: Vernacular orthography in medieval Novgorod, Daniel Buncic (University of Cologne, Germany) 4. The end of the standard language: The rise and fall of a European language culture, Joop van der Horst (University of Leuven, Belgium) 5. The tyranny of Orthography: Multilingualism and Frenchification at primary schools in late 19th-century France, Manuela Böhm (University of Kassel, Germany) 6. Ideologies of language and literacy in the German educational reform movement at the end of the long 19th century, Ulrich Mehlem (Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany) 7. When God is a linguist: Missionary orthographies as a site of social differentiation and the technology of location, Ashraf Abdelhay (Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, Qatar), Busi Makoni (Pennsylvania State University, USA) and Sinfree Makoni (Pennsylvania State University, USA and University of South Africa, South Africa) 8. Standard English, cricket, nationalism and tyrannies of writing in Sri Lanka, Harshana Rambukwella (Open University of Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka) 9. Escaping the tyranny of writing: West African regimes of writing as a model for multilingual literacy, Friederike Lupke (SOAS, University of London, UK) 10. Writing Chinese: A challenge for Cantonese-L1 and South Asian Hongkongers, David C. S. Li (Hong Kong Polytechnic University) 11. Fangyan and the linguistic landscapes of authenticity: Normativity and innovativity of writing in Globalizing China, Xuan Wang (Tilburg University, Netherlands) 12. Dialect authenticity upside down: Brabantish writing practices of a black comedian on Twitter, Jos Swanenberg (Tilburg University, Netherlands) 13. Salty politics and linguistics in the Balearic Islands: Tracing a nonstandard iconization in metalinguistic Facebook communities, Lucas Duane (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg and Open University of Catalonia, Spain) Contributors Index

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The book promises to contain many interesting chapters that could provide resources for a course or seminar on the history and evolution of writing practices and the study of linguistic change in relation to computer-mediated communication... Recommend that publication should be pursued. The editors are established and upcoming researchers in the sociolinguistic fields of multilingualism and literacies research and have managed to include an impressive list of contributors, which will surely create an interesting volume and debate surrounding the subject. -- E. Dimitris Kitis, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

Taking its readers from medieval Russia to nineteenth century Western Europe and further to present settings in Africa, Asia and Europe ... This edited volume is an interesting and valuable publication for researchers and scholars dealing with (standard) language ideologies especially in bi- or multilingual settings as well as researchers interested in language standardization processes and the power of writing and writing systems within this context. * LINGUIST *

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Constanze Weth is at the Institute for Research on Multilingualism, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Kasper Juffermans is at the Institute for Research on Multilingualism, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

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