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Writing Systems Research Advance Access originally published online on June 30, 2009
Writing Systems Research 2009 1(1):1-3; doi:10.1093/wsr/wsp003
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Writing Systems Research: A new journal for a developing field

Vivian Cook

Newcastle University, UK

Jyotsna Vaid

Texas A & M University, USA

Benedetta Bassetti

Institute of Education, University of London, UK

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   The birth of a new journal
 
In recent years writing systems has emerged as a distinct area of research, driven by cross-linguistic studies of the acquisition or use of literacy and its cognitive repercussions, by the novel forms of language use developing in computer-mediated communication, and by sociolinguistic explorations of written language as a marker of identity, among other reasons. But these developments have spanned several different academic disciplines – education, psychology, linguistics, sociolinguistics, typography and many more. They are hard to follow without browsing a range of publications, and will probably miss something, say an important paper on American and British spelling styles in a source such as Business Communication Quarterly (2004). This new journal Writing Systems Research (WSR) provides a forum for bringing together the diverse strands involved in the study of writing systems to allow work carried out in a particular discipline to be informed by . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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