The Written Language Bias in Linguistics: Its Nature, Origins and Transformations

by Per Linell

Overview

Linguists routinely emphasise the primacy of speech over writing. Yet, most linguists have analysed spoken language, as well as language in general, applying theories and methods that are best suited for written language. Accordingly, there is an extensive 'written language bias' in traditional and present day linguistics and other language sciences. In this book, this point is argued with rich and convincing evidence from virtually all fields of linguistics.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781134270514
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/02/2004
Series:	Routledge Advances in Communication and Linguistic Theory
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	264
File size:	815 KB

About the Author

Per Linell

Table of Contents

Part One: Preliminaries 1. Introduction 2. From aspects of communicative action to sets of abstract forms 3. Speech and writing, spoken and written language 4. The written language bias in linguistics Part Two: The Phenomenon and its Extension 5. The written language bias in 101 points Part Three: Discussion 6. The transformations of some written language-based themes 7. Critique of the written language bias arguments 8. People's languages and linguists' grammars 9. The written language bias - past, present, future