The Written Language Bias in Linguistics
Its Nature, Origins and Transformations
1st Edition
Published on 1. February 2005
Book
Hardback
268 pages
978-0-415-34992-5 (ISBN)
Description
Linguists routinely emphasise the primacy of speech over writing. Yet, most linguists have analysed spoken language, as well as language in general, applying theories and methods that are best suited for written language. Accordingly, there is an extensive 'written language bias' in traditional and present day linguistics and other language sciences. In this book, this point is argued with rich and convincing evidence from virtually all fields of linguistics.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Postgraduate and Professional
Illustrations
11 s/w Zeichnungen
11 Line drawings, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
570 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-34992-5 (9780415349925)
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Content
Part One: Preliminaries 1. Introduction 2. From aspects of communicative action to sets of abstract forms 3. Speech and writing, spoken and written language 4. The written language bias in linguistics Part Two: The Phenomenon and its Extension 5. The written language bias in 101 points Part Three: Discussion 6. The transformations of some written language-based themes 7. Critique of the written language bias arguments 8. People's languages and linguists' grammars 9. The written language bias - past, present, future