Units of Language – Units of Writing

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

Editors

Terry Joyce | Cornwall, UK

David Roberts | Tama University

[Written Language & Literacy, 15:2] 2012. v, 140 pp.

Publishing status: Available

© John Benjamins Publishing Company

https://doi.org/10.1075/wll.15.2

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

Subjects

Linguistics

Discourse studies

Language teaching

Writing and literacy