[PDF.33vp] Visible Speech: The Diverse Oneness of Writing Systems (Asian Interactions and Comparisons)

Visible Speech: The Diverse Oneness of Writing Systems (Asian Interactions and Comparisons)

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 | #2021328 in Books |  University of Hawaii Press |  1989-06-01 |  1989-06-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.02 x.88 x5.98l,1.35 | File type: PDF | 336 pages

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||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| DeFranis' thesis in clear prose with evidence|By Cultural ghost|Is writing separate from speech? DeFrancis says "no" and proceeds through all the cases of confusion and debate, knocking down each one to demonstrate that even languages like Chinese (and others you have never noticed) have a phonological kernel.

This book is so much more interesting and readable than|About the Author|John DeFrancis (1911- 2009) John DeFrancis (1911–2009), Emeritus Professor of Chinese at the University of Hawai'i, graduated from Yale in 1933 and immediately departed for China to pursue his interests. In three years of stu

Visible Speech is an attempt to set the record straight about the nature of writing. John DeFrancis, a noted specialist in the Chinese language, shows that writing can be based only upon a sound system and not upon any other linguistic level. He corrects the erroneous views of Chinese writing as pictographic, ideographic, logographic, or morphemic, and defends his conclusion that because of these misrepresentations, the nature of all writing continues to be mis...

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