"In this engaging book, Sampson, treating the all-too-long
ostracized 'black sheep' of linguistics, offers a refreshing and
rigorous contemporary scientific examination of writing cum system.
. . . Linguists on all fronts should welcome this text whose
contents have undergone the same rigorous examination and
discussion as any work on the core problems of language. This work
renews an old field of studyand not for trained scientists only,
for several arguments here are instructive to the novice."
J. Caflisch
,Choice
Choice
Choice
"This book is a readable, non-technical discussion of the nature of
scripts as linguistically structured systems. It sensibly discusses
the general issues concerning the relation of script to language,
and concerning historical change in this relationship. . . .
Sampson's research is unique among recent books in the extent to
which it makes informed use of non-anecdotal psychological research
on reading and spelling in addressing issues of script typology and
history. . . . This is a book that can be recommended as the best
linguistic introduction to the study of writing systems now
available."
John Justeson
,Language
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