Dreams of scripts: Writing systems as gifts of God

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Introduction 1
4. The wax and wane of Whorfian views 7
5. Linguistic relativity revisited 45
6. Cognitive pluralism: A Whorfian analysis 61
7. The "mother tongue" 75
8. Linguacentrism and language history 85
9. Cognitive and social correlates of bilinguality 101
10. Integrating theory in the study of minority languages 113
11. Hebrew language revitalization within a general theory of second language learning 137
12. Language choice and the Halakhic speech act 157
13. Individual and social in language change: Diachronic changes in politeness agreement in forms of address 183
14. Women in conversation: Covert models in American language ideology 199
15. Dreams of scripts: Writing systems as gifts of God 219
16. The future of Chinese characters 227
17. Joshua A. Fishman: Bibliographical inventory 245
18. Index 277