Journals Aktuelle Tendenzen der Sprachwissenschaft
Name
Aktuelle Tendenzen der Sprachwissenschaft
Subjects
Greek-Cypriot dialect
dialectal texts
dialectal texts
ISSN
28540292
Description
Drawing on a corpus of selected dialectal texts, this paper investigates the typographic practices and spelling conventions employed for the written representation of the distinctive sounds of the colloquial Greek-Cypriot dialect (henceforth GCD). The present study aims at pointing out that the absence of an agreed, unified orthographic system has led to the emergence of multiple non-systematic typographic conventions and accordingly to the inconsistent representation of the dialect in written discourse. Consequently, it is shown that a general confusion regarding the "correct" orthography of the dialect prevails, while numerous debates have been raised among linguists and lexicographers underpinned by contradictive language ideologies and political stances. Finally, the lack of Unicode characters and/or a correctly designed typeface including a number of special characters to support the GC generated numerous problems to publishers who turned out to use alternative, time-consuming and amateur practices which do not meet basic rules of microtypography.
Journal type
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