Title:
Standard languages : spoken and written / edited by W. Haas.
Mont Follick series ;
Main Entry:
Haas, W. (William)
Publisher:
Manchester University Press ; Barnes and Noble,
Publication Date:
c1982.
Publication Place:
Manchester : Totowa, N.J. :
ISBN:
0389202916 (Barnes and Noble)
Subject:
Standard language.
Language and languages -- Orthography and spelling.
Diglossia (Linguistics)
Series:
Mont Follick series ; v. 5
Contents:
Introduction : on the normative character of language / W. Haas -- English orthography : a functionalist approach / J. Vachek -- Orthography and dialect : how can different regional pronunciations be accommodated in a single orthography? / D.J. Allerton -- Diglossia in German-speaking Switzerland / R.E. Keller -- Some consequences of diglossia / M.W. Sugathapala de Silva -- More than a matter of 'writing with the learned, pronouncing with the vulgar' : some preliminary observations on the Arabic Koine / T.F. Mitchell -- Diglossia in Greece / Margaret Alexiou.
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