Units of Language – Units of Writing

Special issue of Written Language and Literacy 15:2 (2012)

Editors
ORCID logoTerry Joyce | Cornwall, UK
David Roberts | Tama University
[Written Language & Literacy, 15:2] 2012.  v, 140 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Table of Contents
Articles
Introduction to special issue on ‘Units of Language – Units of Writing’: A key relationship for writing systems research
David Roberts and Terry Joyce
147–152
Literacy, rationality, and logic: The historical and developmental origins of logical discourse
David R. Olson
153–164
Offline segmentation and online language processing units: The influence of literacy
Dorina Veldhuis and Jeanne Kurvers
165–184
How subtle differences in orthography influence conceptual interpretation
Arina Banga, Esther Hanssen, Robert Schreuder and Anneke Neijt
185–208
Boundaries in written representations: The potential beginning of words in German
Martin Neef
209–225
Writing grammar rather than tone: An orthography experiment in Togo
David Roberts and Stephen L. Walter
226–253
Orthographic representation and variation within the Japanese writing system: Some corpus-based observations
Terry Joyce, Bor Hodošček and Kikuko Nishina
254–278
Book reviews
Book reviews: Stephen Chrisomalis. Numerical Notation. A Comparative History. Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp 486.
Georg Schuppener
279–281
Mary P. Sheridan & Jennifer Rowsell. Design Literacies: Learning and Innovation in the Digital Age. London, New York: Routledge Chapman & Hall, 2010. Pp xii + 132
Simone Amorocho
282–286
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