Publications

Publication details [#2400]

Coulmas, Florian. 1983. The impact of writing on language. In Borbé, Tasso, ed. Semiotics unfolding: Proceedings of the Second Congress of the International Association for Semiotic Studies, Vienna, July 1979. Mouton. pp. 1103–1111.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

language change | language variety | writing

Language as a subject

Japanese

Annotation

Writing is said to preserve varieties of language and lexical items, while it is also a vehicle of linguistic change and innovation. The Japanese case is used as evidence to support this claim.