Writing Systems: A Linguistic Introduction
Language: English
Published by Stanford University Press, 1990
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- Title
- Writing Systems: A Linguistic Introduction
- Author
- Sampson, Geoffrey
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Publication year
- 1990
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0804717567
- ISBN 13
- 9780804717564
This book is offered in the belief that written language is a form of language. As such, it deserves to be treated with the methods of modern, scientific linguistic study, which have been increasing our understanding of the spoken form of language for many decades.
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"This book is a readable, non-technical discussion of the nature of scripts as linguistically structured systems. It sensibly discusses the general issues concerning the relation of script to language, and concerning historical change in this relationship. . . . Sampson's research is unique among recent books in the extent to which it makes informed use of non-anecdotal psychological research on reading and spelling in addressing issues of script typology and history. . . . This is a book that can be recommended as the best linguistic introduction to the study of writing systems now available."
—John Justeson
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