Writing Systems and Their UseAn Overview of Grapholinguistics\nAuthor(s): Dimitrios Meletis, Christa Drscheid, Schweizerischer Nationalfonds (SNF)\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: De Gruyter, Germany\nImprint: De Gruyter Mouton\nISBN-13: 9783111631769, 978-3111631769\nSynopsis\nGrapholinguistics, the multifaceted study of writing systems, is growing increasingly popular, yet to date no coherent account covering and connecting its major branches exists. This book now gives an overview of the core theoretical and empirical questions of this field. A treatment of the structure of writing systemstheir relation to speech and language, their material features, linguistic functions, and norms, as well as the different types in which they comeis complemented by perspectives centring on the use of writing, incorporating psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic issues such as reading processes or orthographic variation as social action. Examples stem from a variety of diverse systems such as Chines.