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Peer reviewedDanet, Brenda; Bogoch, Bryna – Language and Communication, 1992
Presents theoretical discussion of the emergence of linguistic features of documents that indicate society is moving toward a view of writing as a form of constitutive social action and of written documents as autonomous material objects having a life of their own. Linguistic features of Anglo-Saxon wills are shown to differ from those of modern…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Interdisciplinary Approach, Old English, Oral Language
Peer reviewedOlson, David R. – Language and Communication, 1993
Explores how graphic symbols came to represent underlying linguistic constituents. It is suggested that the relationship between speech and writing may be just the opposite of what is traditionally assumed. Writing systems may provide the concepts and categories for thinking about the structure of speech rather than the reverse. (47 references)…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Language Research, Oral Language, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence
