Written Language Revisited

Josef Vachek, one of the last living exponents of the Prague School, has dedicated 50 years of his life to the study of written language in all its aspects. This volume is a tribute to him on the occasion of his 80th birthday. It contains a selection of his papers written between 1945 and 1987. Contents Writing and phonetic transcription; Written language and printed language; The linguistic status of written utterances; The primacy of writing?; Segmentation of the flow of speech and written language; The stylistics of written language; Glossematics and written language; Paralinguistic sounds.

WRITTEN LANGUAGE REVISITED; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Note; Some remarks on writing and phonetic transcription; Notes; Written language and printed language; Notes; On the linguistic status of written utterances; Notes; The primacy of writing?; Notes; Segmentation of the flow of speech and written language; References; Some remarks on the stylistics of written language; References; Glossematics and written language; References; Paralinguistic sounds, written language and language development; Notes; References.

Written language as a heterogeneous systemNote; References; The 1929 Praguian "Theses", internal speech, and written language; References; Written language seen from the functionalist angle; 1. Increasing interest in written language; 2. The development of Praguian views of written language; 3. Correspondences between the spoken and the written norm of language; 4. Queries raised against the autonomy of the written norm and their refutation; 5. Functionalist conception of written norm providing deeper insight into facts of language; Notes; References; On the problem of written language; Notes.