Written Language & Literacy

Volume 1, Issue 2 (1998)

1998.

Publishing status: Available
Published online on 19 July 2012

https://doi.org/10.1075/wll.1.2

Table of Contents

Articles
Through the Looking Glass: Literacy, Writing Systems and Mirror-Image Discrimination Eve Danziger and Eric Pederson	153–169
Authority and Discourse: Towards a Model for Orthography Selection Christina Eira	171–224
Writing in Two Scripts: A Case Study of Digraphia in Taiwanese Tiu Hak-Khiam	225–248
Commentary: Spelling with a Capital "S" Florian Coulmas	249–252
Book Reviews
Review of Coulmas (1996): The Blackwell encyclopedia of writing systems Reviewed by John Sören Pettersson	253–257
Review of Schmandt-Besserat (1996): How writing came about Reviewed by Robert K. Englund	257–261
Review of Fischer (1988): Evidence for Hellenic dialect in the Phaistos Disk Reviewed by Emmett L. Bennett	261–264
Review of Coleman (1996): Public reading and the reading public in late medieval England and France Reviewed by Franz H. Bäuml	264–269
Review of Messick (1993/1986): The calligraphic state: Textual domination and history in a Muslim society Reviewed by Richard Kraus	270–272
Review of Possehl (1996): Indus age: The writing system Reviewed by William Bright	272–275
Review of Taylor & Taylor (1995): Writing and literacy in Chinese, Korean and Japanese Reviewed by Janet S. Shibamoto Smith	275–279
Review of Chiang (1995): "We two know the script; we have become good friends": Linguistic and social aspects of the women's script literacy in southern Hunan, China Reviewed by William S-Y. Wang	280–282
Review of Gottlieb (1995): Kanji politics: Language policy and Japanese script & Marshall Unger (1996): Literacy and script reform in Occupation Japan: Reading between the lines Reviewed by Florian Coulmas	282–286
Review of Kress (1997): Before writing: Rethinking the paths to literacy Reviewed by Bethan Marshall	286–288
Review of Kapitzke (1995): Literacy and religion: The textual politics and practice of Seventh-day Adventism Reviewed by Bohdan Szuchewycz	289–292
Review of Verhoeven (1996): Vernacular literacy in non-mainstream communities Reviewed by Andrée Tabouret-Keller	293–296
Review of Nunberg (1996): The future of the book Reviewed by Charles Bazerman	297–300
Notes	301–302
Publications Received	303–304
Index to Volume One	305–309