Standard languages
Subtitle: spoken and written
By: edited by W. Haas.
Contributors: Haas, W.
Series: Mont Follick series ;; v. 5
Publisher: Manchester University Press; Barnes and Noble
Published: 1982
Place of publication: Manchester; Totowa, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
Subjects: Standard language.; Language and languages -- Orthography and spelling.; Diglossia (Linguistics)
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : on the normative character of language / W. Haas; title: English orthography : a functionalist approach / J. Vachek; title: Orthography and dialect : how can different regional pronunciations be accommodated in a single orthography? / D.J. Allerton; title: Diglossia in German-speaking Switzerland / R.E. Keller; title: Some consequences of diglossia / M.W. Sugathapala de Silva; title: More than a matter of 'writing with the learned, pronouncing with the vulgar' : some preliminary observations on the Arabic Koine / T.F. Mitchell; title: Diglossia in Greece / Margaret Alexiou.