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Vol. 25:4 (2015) ► pp.507–516

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Introduction

Language ideologies and writing systems

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Published online: 1 December 2015
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This special issue of Pragmatics brings together a collection of articles by linguistic anthropologists studying the interplay between the production and interpretation of written language on one hand, and the language ideologies that organize that production and interpretation on the other. This introductory essay offers an overview of the common theoretical foundations upon which the authors in this volume build their analyses of language ideologies and writing systems and underscores the thematic connections across the articles.
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