LIN 1300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Katakana, Logogram, Devanagari
9 Dec 2016
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Competence vs performance, description vs prescription, design features of a language. Penmanship, style, writing system (use of graphic marks to represent specific linguistic utterances) Arguments for: all are spoken but some are written, everyone learns to speak as a child, writing must be taught, writing can be edited, writing does not exist everywhere, neurolinguistic evidence, archeological evidence. Arguments against: writing must be taught, writing can be edited, writing is more physically stable. The effects of writing on culture have not always been viewed positively. Writing is inhuman, pretends to establish outside of the mind what in reality can only be in the mind. How is writing systematic: *it has a systematic relationship to the language. It has a systematic internal organization of its own (writing left/right, up/down) e. g roman alphabet represents english, french, spanish also the chinese writing system represents multiple languages/dialects.
