Tyranny of Writing

Constanze Weth is at the Institute for Research on Multilingualism, University of Luxembourg, LuxembourgKasper Juffermans is at the Institute for Research on Multilingualism, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

A fascinating collection of studies of conflict between writing and speech.

• Preface1. The tyranny of writing in language and society, Constanze Weth (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg) and Kasper Juffermans (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)2. Revisiting the 'tyranny of writing', Florian Coulmas (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)3. How to write a birch-bark letter: Vernacular orthography in medieval Novgorod, Daniel Buncic (University of Cologne, Germany)4. The end of the standard language: The rise and fall of a European language culture, Joop van der Horst (University of Leuven, Belgium)5. The tyranny of Orthography: Multilingualism and Frenchification at primary schools in late 19th-century France, Manuela Böhm (University of Kassel, Germany)6. Ideologies of language and literacy in the German educational reform movement at the end of the long 19th century, Ulrich Mehlem (Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany)7. When God is a linguist: Missionary orthographies as a site of social differentiation and the technology of location, Ashraf Abdelhay (Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, Qatar), Busi Makoni (Pennsylvania State University, USA) and Sinfree Makoni (Pennsylvania State University, USA and University of South Africa, South Africa)8. Standard English, cricket, nationalism and tyrannies of writing in Sri Lanka, Harshana Rambukwella (Open University of Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka)9. Escaping the tyranny of writing: West African regimes of writing as a model for multilingual literacy, Friederike Lupke (SOAS, University of London, UK)10. Writing Chinese: A challenge for Cantonese-L1 and South Asian Hongkongers, David C. S. Li (Hong Kong Polytechnic University)11. Fangyan and the linguistic landscapes of authenticity: Normativity and innovativity of writing in Globalizing China, Xuan Wang (Tilburg University, Netherlands)12. Dialect authenticity upside down: Brabantish writing practices of a black comedian on Twitter, Jos Swanenberg (Tilburg University, Netherlands)13. Salty politics and linguistics in the Balearic Islands: Tracing a nonstandard iconization in metalinguistic Facebook communities, Lucas Duane (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg and Open University of Catalonia, Spain)ContributorsIndex