Literacies in Contact
Edited by Manuela Böhm and Constanze Weth
Special issue of Written Language & Literacy 23:2 (2020) v, 180 pp.
Daniel Bunčić
List of John Benjamins publications for which Daniel Bunčić plays a role.
Title
Subjects Discourse studies | Language teaching | Writing and literacy
Articles
2020 Foreign schriftdenken in ausbau languages: Luxembourgish and Rusyn orthographies in multiple language contact Literacies in Contact, Böhm, Manuela and Constanze Weth (eds.), pp. 289–312 | Article
The concept of schriftdenken describes how the knowledge of a writing system in use guides the creation of a writing system for a yet to be standardized language. Trubetzkoy described this effect with reference to the invention of the Glagolitic alphabet in the 9th century with Greek as the… read more
2020 Literacies in contact: Forms, functions, and practices Literacies in Contact, Böhm, Manuela and Constanze Weth (eds.), pp. 133–153 | Article
Research on language contact has so far mainly focused on oral situations, although standardization and language ideologies always have an important influence on multilingualism in both its written and its spoken form. This raises the question of which theoretical models are most suitable for… read more
2005 The apostrophe: A neglected and misunderstood reading aid From Letter to Sound: New perspectives on writing systems, Neef, Martin and Beatrice Primus † (eds.), pp. 185–204 | Article
The paper provides a new analysis of the apostrophe in various languages which is less redundant and complies better with linguistic intuition than traditional definitions.
The apostrophe does not mark the omission of letters, as traditionally assumed (English it’s, German auf’m ‘on the’, French… read more