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In:Handbook of Pragmatics: 22nd Annual Installment
Edited by Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren
[Handbook of Pragmatics 22] 2019
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Pragmatics of script

 | Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar
Published online: 23 December 2019
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https://doi.org/10.1075/hop.22.pra6
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Script communities and graphic differentiation
  • 3.Graphic affordances and script-code (mis)alignments
  • 4.Scaling multiscriptality
  • 5.Script and embodiment
  • 6.For a future pragmatics of script
  • References
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