Biscriptality - A sociolinguistic typology

Serbs write their language in Cyrillic or Latin letters in seemingly random distribution. Hindi-Urdu is written in Nagari by Hindus and in the Arabic script by Muslims. In medieval Scandinavia the Latin alphabet, ink and parchment were used for texts 'for eternity', whereas ephemeral messages were carved into wood in runes. The Occitan language has two competing orthographies. German texts were set either in blackletter or in roman type between 1749 and 1941. In Ancient Egypt the distribution of hieroglyphs, hieratic and demotic was much more complex than commonly assumed. Chinese is written with traditional and simplied characters in different countries.

This collective monograph, which includes contributions from eleven specialists in different philological areas, for the rst time develops a coherent typological model on the basis of sociolinguistic and graphematic criteria to describe and classify these and many other linguistic situations in which two or more writing systems are used simultaneously for one and the same language.

Zusammenfassung

Serbs write their language in Cyrillic or Latin letters in seemingly random distribution. Hindi-Urdu is written in Nagari by Hindus and in the Arabic script by Muslims. In medieval Scandinavia the Latin alphabet, ink and parchment were used for texts ‘for eternity’, whereas ephemeral messages were carved into wood in runes. The Occitan language has two competing orthographies. German texts were set either in blackletter or in roman type between 1749 and 1941. In Ancient Egypt the distribution of hieroglyphs, hieratic and demotic was much more complex than commonly assumed. Chinese is written with traditional and simplified characters in different countries.

This collective monograph, which includes contributions from eleven specialists in different philological areas, for the first time develops a coherent typological model on the basis of sociolinguistic and graphematic criteria to describe and classify these and many other linguistic situations in which two or more writing systems are used simultaneously for one and the same language.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Anastasi Antipova, Anastasia Antipova, Carmen Brandt, Danie Buncic, Daniel Buncic, Daniel Bunčić
• Mitarbeit: Daniel Bunčić (Herausgeber), Sandr L Lippert (Herausgeber), Sandra L Lippert (Herausgeber), Sandra L. Lippert (Herausgeber), Achim Rabus (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Universitätsvlg. Winter
• Sprache: Englisch, Deutsch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 30.06.2016
• EAN: 9783825366254
• ISBN: 978-3-8253-6625-4
• Seiten: 425
• Abmessung: 155 mm x 235 mm x 27 mm
• Gewicht: 657 g
• Mitarbeit: Anastasia Antipova, Carmen Brandt, Ekatarina Kislova, Ekaterina Kislova, Henning Klöter, Alexandra von Lieven, Sandra L. Lippert, Helma Pasch, Achim Rabus, Jürgen Spitzmüller, Constanze Weth
• Illustration: 128 Abbildungen
• Serien: Akademiekonferenzen; Akademiekonferenzen
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft; Chinesisch, Russisch, Ägyptisch, Typographie, Orthographie, Schrift, Soziolinguistik, Serbokroatisch, Mittellatein, Schriftlinguistik, Zweischriftigkeit, Belarussisch, Hindu-Urdu, Typologie (Linguistik)