Part of
Handbook of Pragmatics: 22nd Annual InstallmentEdited by Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren
[Handbook of Pragmatics 22] 2019
► pp. 181–198
Edited by Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren
[Handbook of Pragmatics 22] 2019
► pp. 181–198
Pragmatics of script
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Script communities and graphic differentiation
- 3.Graphic affordances and script-code (mis)alignments
- 4.Scaling multiscriptality
- 5.Script and embodiment
- 6.For a future pragmatics of script
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