The Linguistics of Literacy
1st Edition
Published on 1. July 1992
XX, 334 pages
978-90-272-7718-3 (ISBN)
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This volume grew out of the Seventeenth Annual University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Linguistics Symposium, which was held in Milwaukee on April 8-10, 1988. The theme of the conference was the relationship between linguistics and literacy. In this volume, a selection of papers are presented which cluster around three of the major themes that developed during the conference: the linguistic differences between written and spoken genres, the relationship between orthographic systems and phonology, and the psychology of orthography. The volume concludes with a solicited paper by Walter J. Ong which draws together the various strands considered in the other sections of the book and addresses the broader question of the social and psychological consequences of literacy.
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Content
- THE LINGUISTICS OF LITERACY
- Editorial page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Table of contents
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I: Written language and spoken language compared
- Part II: Orthographic systems
- Part III: The psychology of orthography
- Part IV: Consequences of literacy
- REFERENCES
- PART I: WRITTEN LANGUAGE AND SPOKEN LANGUAGE COMPARED
- Variation in the intonation and punctuationof different adverbial clause typesin spoken and written English
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Adverbial clauses in conversation
- 3. Adverbial clauses in freshman writing
- 4. Related findings
- 5. Summary and conclusion
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- Informationflowin speaking and writing
- Speaking
- Writing
- REFERENCES
- How is conversation like literary discourse? The role of imagery and details in creating involvement
- The role of details in involvement
- The function of details in conversation
- Details in conversational and literary discourse
- Other genres
- The centrality of scenes: neurological evidence
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- Modern American poetry and modern American speech
- Introduction
- Relevant research
- The texts
- Analysis of narratives
- Analysis of conversations
- REFERENCES
- PART II: ORTHOGRAPHIC SYSTEMS
- Segmentalismin linguistics The alphabetic basis of phonological theory
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- The syllabic origin of writing and the segmental origin of the alphabet
- Introduction
- Definitions
- Modern grammatogeny
- Units
- Ancient grammatogeny
- Segments
- Grammatology
- Prospects
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- ADDENDUM
- Phonemic segmentation as epiphenomenonEvidence from the history of alphabetic writing
- 1. Preliminary remarks
- 2. The status of phonemic segmentation
- 3. Alphabetic writing
- 3.1 Typology of writing systems
- 3.1.1 Terminology
- 3.1.2 Distribution of writing systems
- 3.2 The Greek adaptation of the Canaanite system
- 4. Implications
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- Aspiration and Cherokee orthographies
- 1. The phonology of aspiration
- 2. The Cherokee syllabary
- 3. Understanding the organization of the syllabary
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- Interpreting Emai orthographic strategies
- Introduction
- Spelling issues
- Background
- Strategies for spelling Emai
- Discussion
- Summary
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- Linguistic aspects of musical and mathematical notation
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- PART III: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF ORTHOGRAPHY
- Orthographic aspects of linguistic competence
- 1. Introduction
- 2. On orthographic vs. phonological knowledge
- 3. On the representation of phonological and orthographic knowledge in the lexicon
- 4. On the implicit "written language bias" in linguistics
- 5. Conclusion
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- The costs and benefits of phonological analysis
- 1. Introduction
- 2. In evaluating the cost of proposed phonologies, simplicity isn't enough
- 2.1 Simplicity is only part of the evaluation of grammars
- 2.2 Testing must follow any cost analysis
- 3. The epistemology of phonology
- 3.1 Recognizing derivational relationships between words
- 3.2 Recognizing the generality of sound patterns
- 3.3 "You can lead a horse to water, but...
- 3.4 What is the payoff from constructing SPE-phonology
- 4. Conclusion
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- Morphological relationships revealed through the repetition priming task
- Introduction
- Inflections and derivations compared
- Do alternations in spelling and pronunciation obscure morphological relationships?
- Are less familiar words analyzed more readily with respect to morphemic structure than more familiar words?
- Does semantic similarity enhance the recognition of morphological relationships?
- Discussion
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- Orthography and phonologyThe psychological reality of orthographic depth
- Orthography, phonology and the mental lexicon
- Orthographic depth: Evidence from the shallow Serbo-Croatian orthography
- Evidence from the deeper Hebrew orthography
- Evidence from cross-language studies
- The importance of orthographic depth: critique and conclusions
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
- REFERENCES
- A model of lexical storageEvidence from second language learners' orthographic errors
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- PART IV: CONSEQUENCES OF LITERACY
- Writing is a technology that restructures thought
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- V
- VI
- VII
- VIII
- IX
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
- REFERENCES
- Language index
- Author index
- Subject index
