Asia's Orthographic DilemmaUniversity of Hawaiʻi Press, 1997 - 338 sider This work examines the use of Chinese characters in East Asia. It tackles the issue from many different perspectives, along the way deflating several popular fallacies. |
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abstract acters all-hangul alphabetic scripts Asia basic borrowed char character script character texts character writing system character-based writing character's China Chinese characters Chinese language Chinese writing chữ nôm components concepts consonant conventions culture DeFrancis dictionary East Asian languages elements English example fact forms function grammar graphemes graphic guage hangul hanja Hanzi homonyms homophonous identify input inventory Japan Japanese kana kanji Korean Korean language kun readings language's learning less letters lexical lexicon linguistic literacy literate Mandarin meaning monosyllabic morphemes number of characters okurigana orthography percent phemes phonetic phonological phonological recoding pinyin practice problem pronunciation quốc ngữ radical readers relationship represent representation romanized semantic Shanghainese simplified Sinitic morphemes Sinitic terms Sinitic vocabulary Sinitic words sound speakers speech spelling standard strokes structure style syllabary syllables symbols ters tion Tōyō kanji types units users Vietnam Vietnamese visual Western word division writing reform writing system written language Yuwen