TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bunčić, Daniel
AU  - Antipova, Anastasia
A2  - Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften
ED  - Lippert, Sandra L.
ED  - Rabus, Achim
PY  - 2016
DA  - 2016//
TI  - Biscriptality: a sociolinguistic typology
T3  - Akademie-Konferenzen Band 24
PB  - Universitätsverlag Winter
CY  - Heidelberg
KW  - Writing
KW  - History
KW  - Language and languages
KW  - Orthography and spelling
KW  - Typology (Linguistics)
KW  - Sociolinguistics
AB  - "Serbs write their language in Cyrillic or Latin letters in seemingly random distribution. Hindi-Urdu is written in Nagari by Hindus and in the Arabic script by Muslims. In medieval Scandinavia the Latin alphabet, ink and parchment were used for texts 'for eternity', whereas ephemeral messages were carved into wood in runes. The Occitan language has two competing orthographies. German texts were set either in blackletter or in roman type between 1749 and 1941. In Ancient Egypt the distribution of hieroglyphs, hieratic and demotic was much more complex than commonly assumed. Chinese is written with traditional and simplified characters in different countries. This collective monograph, which includes contributions from eleven specialists in different philological areas, for the first time develops a coherent typological model on the basis of sociolinguistic and graphematic criteria to describe and classify these and many other linguistic situations in which two or more writing systems are used simultaneously for one and the same language."--Page [4] of cover
SN  - 3825366251
LA  - English
N1  - Daniel Bunčić ; edited by Daniel Bunčić, Sandra L. Lippert, Achim Rabus ; with contributions by Anastasia Antipova [und 9 anderen] ; on behalf of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, the State Academy of Baden-Württemberg
ID  - 857688596
ER  -