Standard languages : spoken and written
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Standard languages : spoken and written
（Mont Follick series, v. 5）
Manchester University Press , Barnes and Noble Books, c1982
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Contents of Works
- Introduction : on the normative character of language / W. Haas
- English orthography : a functionalist approach / J. Vachek
- Orthography and dialect : how can different regional pronunciations be accommodated in a single orthography? / D.J. Allerton
- Diglossia in German-speaking Switzerland / R.E. Keller
- Some consequences of diglossia / M.W. Sugathapala de Silva
- More than a matter of 'writing with the learned, pronouncing with the vulgar' : some preliminary observations on the Arabic Koine / T.F. Mitchell
- Diglossia in Greece / Margaret Alexiou
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Description
In this volume, Dr. Haas brings together studies on the powerful trend toward linguistic standardization, viewing it as an essential feature of the life of a language and of the work of grammarians. J. Vachek examines the distinctive function of written norms and D.J. Allerton considers how the same norm may serve different dialects. The book also includes four studiesoby R.E. Keller, M.W.S. De Silva, T.S. Mitchell and M. Alexiouowhich review present conditions in Switzerland, Ceylon, the Arabic- speaking Middle East and Greece and deal with the problems, linguistic and social, that arise from an imposition of written and spoken standards on divergent vernaculars.
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