Spelling and Society: The Culture and Politics of Orthography around the WorldSpelling 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. |
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Page 77 - When there shall be one national language, then only will the union of the empire be completely established ... It is true that in process of time this cultivation of the Gaelic language will destroy the language itself, as a living language; but it will have produced the knowledge of a better, and will descend to posterity by means of the press in a more perfect state, than if it should be found only in the conversation of unlettered individuals. There would be no more cause of regret, then, that...
Page 13 - Literacy is not simply knowing how to read and write a particular script but applying this knowledge for specific purposes in specific contexts of use.
Page 119 - A genuinely Creole orthography will strengthen the structural and psychological identity of the Creole; it may in fact initiate or support a recreolization process; it will provide a source for higher prestige and may therefore facilitate native speakers' identification with the Creole language and culture.
Page 15 - This conservative or antiquarian bias can perhaps be best appreciated by contrasting it with fully phonetic writing; for phonetic writing, by imitating human discourse, is in fact symbolizing, not the objects of the social and natural order, but the very process of human interaction in speech: the verb is as easy to express as the noun ; and the written vocabulary can be easily and unambiguously expanded. Phonetic systems are therefore adapted to expressing every nuance of individual thought, to...
Page 82 - The three semiotic processes we have identified are thus the means by which people construct ideological representations of linguistic differences. Examples will follow, but first let us describe the processes more particularly: Iconization involves a transformation of the sign relationship between linguistic features (or varieties) and the social images with which they are linked. Linguistic features that index social groups or activities appear to be iconic representations of them, as if a linguistic...
Page 68 - Presbyterian writer, not easily offended by any thing proceeding from such a source, complains of it as " most ludicrous, and altogether inconsistent with that decorous and seemly garb in which the word of God should be presented to the public."f South Africa furnishes its due contingent of similar facts.
Page 15 - ... and so, it may be surmised, was the nature of the writing system itself. For pictographic and logographic systems are alike in their tendency to reify the objects of the natural and social order; by so doing they register, record, make permanent the existing social and ideological picture.
Page 49 - ... than no Basque at all. Indeed, it might be worse for the way in which using a few Basque words to speak to children or to call a dog, trivializes the goal activists have of creating a living Basque language and Basque speaking culture. One final example involves the parodic spellings of Spanish words. The most common forms this takes is the use of Basque letters, K and TX, in otherwise Castilian words. Both of these forms are found in Basque orthography, but not in Castilian. They appear in Spanish...
Page 15 - ... written vocabulary can be easily and unambiguously expanded. Phonetic systems are therefore adapted to expressing every nuance of individual thought, to recording personal reactions as well as items of major social importance. Non-phonetic writing, on the other hand, tends rather to record and reify only those items in the cultural repertoire which the literate specialists have selected for written expression ; and it tends to express the collective attitude towards them. The notion of representing...
