John Mountford
List of John Benjamins publications in which John Mountford is involved.
Articles
1982 Text', 'book', 'writing', and the medial aspect of language Information Design Journal 3:2, pp. 110–118 | Article
Compared to the narrower linguistics of the recent past, the rounded-out linguistics of the 1980s, deepened by semantics/pragmatics/discourse and broadened by sociolinguistics and psycholinguistics, offers (and should seek) much closer collaboration with typographers. In particular, linguistics no… read more
1980 Writing-system as a concept in linguistics Information Design Journal 1:4, pp. 223–231 | Article
In a proposed systemisation of terminology concerned with writing, the most precise relationship assigned is that between 'writing-system ' as genus and 'orthography ' as one of its species, viz. the species designed to serve the general purposes of literacy, as opposed to the specialised purposes… read more