Written Language & Literacy

Volume 1, Issue 2 (1998)

1998.  
Publishing status: Available
Table of Contents
Articles
Through the Looking Glass: Literacy, Writing Systems and Mirror-Image Discrimination
Eve Danziger and Eric Pederson
153–169
Authority and Discourse: Towards a Model for Orthography Selection
Christina Eira
171–224
Writing in Two Scripts: A Case Study of Digraphia in Taiwanese
Tiu Hak-Khiam
225–248
Commentary: Spelling with a Capital "S"
Florian Coulmas
249–252
Book Reviews
Review of Coulmas (1996): The Blackwell encyclopedia of writing systems
Reviewed by John Sören Pettersson
253–257
Review of Schmandt-Besserat (1996): How writing came about
Reviewed by Robert K. Englund
257–261
Review of Fischer (1988): Evidence for Hellenic dialect in the Phaistos Disk
Reviewed by Emmett L. Bennett
261–264
Review of Coleman (1996): Public reading and the reading public in late medieval England and France
Reviewed by Franz H. Bäuml
264–269
Review of Messick (1993/1986): The calligraphic state: Textual domination and history in a Muslim society
Reviewed by Richard Kraus
270–272
Review of Possehl (1996): Indus age: The writing system
Reviewed by William Bright
272–275
Review of Taylor & Taylor (1995): Writing and literacy in Chinese, Korean and Japanese
Reviewed by Janet S. Shibamoto Smith
275–279
Review of Chiang (1995): "We two know the script; we have become good friends": Linguistic and social aspects of the women's script literacy in southern Hunan, China
Reviewed by William S-Y. Wang
280–282
Review of Gottlieb (1995): Kanji politics: Language policy and Japanese script & Marshall Unger (1996): Literacy and script reform in Occupation Japan: Reading between the lines
Reviewed by Florian Coulmas
282–286
Review of Kress (1997): Before writing: Rethinking the paths to literacy
Reviewed by Bethan Marshall
286–288
Review of Kapitzke (1995): Literacy and religion: The textual politics and practice of Seventh-day Adventism
Reviewed by Bohdan Szuchewycz
289–292
Review of Verhoeven (1996): Vernacular literacy in non-mainstream communities
Reviewed by Andrée Tabouret-Keller
293–296
Review of Nunberg (1996): The future of the book
Reviewed by Charles Bazerman
297–300
Notes
301–302
Publications Received
303–304
Index to Volume One
305–309