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Sjoberg, Andrée F. 1966. Socio-cultural and linguistic factors in the development of writing systems for preliterate peoples. In Bright, William O., ed. Sociolinguistics. Mouton. pp. 260–273.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
Keywords
culture | literacy | orthography | pre-literate society | social context

Annotation

S. argues that the relationships between writing and speech vary significantly with the nature of the socio-cultural order.