LINGUIST List 23.549 Thu Feb 02 2012 Books: Sociolinguistics/Writing Systems: Sebba Editor for this issue: Danniella Hornby <daniellalinguistlist.org> Links to the websites of all LINGUIST's supporting publishers are available at the end of this issue. Directory         1.     Joyce Reid , Spelling and Society: Sebba Message 1: Spelling and Society: Sebba Date: 02-Feb-2012 From: Joyce Reid <jreidcambridge.org> Subject: Spelling and Society: Sebba E-mail this message to a friend Title: Spelling and Society Subtitle: The Culture and Politics of Orthography around the World Published: 2012 Publisher: Cambridge University Press                 http://us.cambridge.org Author: Mark Sebba Paperback: ISBN: 9780521300759 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 25.99 Paperback: ISBN: 9780521300759 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 45.00 Abstract: Spelling matters to people. In America and Britain every day, members of the public write to the media on spelling issues, and take part in spelling contests. In Germany, a reform of the spelling system has provoked a constitutional crisis; in Galicia, a 'war of orthographies' parallels an intense public debate on national identity; on walls, bridges and trains globally, 'Punx' and 'Anarkists' proclaim their identities orthographically. The way we spell often represents an attempt to associate with, or dissociate from, other languages. In Spelling and Society, Mark Sebba explores why matters of orthography are of real concern to so many groups, as a reflection of culture, history and social practices, and as a powerful symbol of national or local identity. This 2007 book will be welcomed by students and researchers in English language, orthography and sociolinguistics, and by anyone interested in the importance of spelling in contemporary society. Review of the hardback: 'Mark Sebba goes beyond a description of the culture and the politics of orthography around the globe…such a 'sociolinguistics of orthography' has been missing from the literature' Introduction: society and orthography; 1. Approaching orthography; 2. Orthography as social practice; 3. Language contact, linguists and the emergence of orthographies; 4. 'Postcolonial' orthographies; 5. Between language and dialect: orthography in unstandardised and standardising vernaculars; 6. Reform or revolution: where angels fear to tread; 7. Why do we spell? Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics                             Writing Systems Written In: English (eng) See this book announcement on our website: http://linguistlist.org/pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=59077 Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue -------------------------- Major Supporters -------------------------- Brill http://www.brill.nl Cambridge Scholars Publishing http://www.c-s-p.org Cambridge University Press http://us.cambridge.org Cascadilla Press http://www.cascadilla.com/ Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd http://www.continuumbooks.com De Gruyter Mouton http://www.degruyter.com/mouton Edinburgh University Press http://www.eup.ed.ac.uk/ Elsevier Ltd http://www.elsevier.com/linguistics Emerald Group Publishing Limited http://www.emeraldinsight.com/ Equinox Publishing Ltd http://www.equinoxpub.com/ European Language Resources Association - ELRA http://www.elra.info. Georgetown University Press http://www.press.georgetown.edu Hodder Education http://www.hoddereducation.co.uk John Benjamins http://www.benjamins.com/ Lincom GmbH http://www.lincom.eu MIT Press http://mitpress.mit.edu/ Morgan & Claypool Publishers Multilingual Matters http://www.multilingual-matters.com/ Narr Francke Attempto Verlag GmbH + Co. KG http://www.narr.de/ Oxford University Press http://www.oup.com/us Palgrave Macmillan http://www.palgrave.com Pearson Linguistics http://www.pearsoned.co.uk/linguistics Peter Lang AG http://www.peterlang.com Rodopi http://www.rodopi.nl/ Routledge (Taylor and Francis) http://www.routledge.com/ Springer http://www.springer.com University of Toronto Press http://www.utpjournals.com/ Wiley-Blackwell http://www.wiley.com ---------------------- Other Supporting Publishers ---------------------- Association of Editors of the Journal of Portuguese Linguistics http://www.fl.ul.pt/revistas/JPL/JPLweb.htm Graduate Linguistic Students' Association, Umass http://glsa.hypermart.net/ International Pragmatics Assoc. http://www.ipra.be Linguistic Association of Finland http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/sky/ Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke - LOT http://www.lotpublications.nl/ Pacific Linguistics http://pacling.anu.edu.au/ SIL International http://www.ethnologue.com/bookstore.asp University of Nebraska Press Utrecht institute of Linguistics http://www-uilots.let.uu.nl/ Page Updated: 02-Feb-2012       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.