Visible Speech
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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...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0824812077
ISBN13:9780824812072
Release Date:June 1989
Publisher:University of Hawaii Press
Length:336 Pages
Weight:1.70 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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