Difference between revisions of "Orthography"

This is a word used in [[Linguistics]], and not of much use to others.  It means the whole business of representing a language on the page – ''''ortho'''dox writing'.  It refers to how a writer shapes the letters (in handwriting), or what font s/he chooses to use on the computer; to the way [[diacritical]] marks are used; all other forms of showing language use in writing; and to spelling.  Indeed, sometimes the word '''orthography''' is used, in pompous British English, to mean 'spelling'.  In [[American English]], it appears to mean 'spelling' much more normally.  Indeed, the terms '''orthography''' and 'spelling' are used interchangeably, for example in a leading text-book of Linguistics – [[Fromkin and Rodman]] (1993) - where the Index item reads 'Orthography … ''See also''  Spelling'.  In French the equivalent – ''orthographie'' – is the normal word.

This is a word used in [[Linguistics]], and not of much use to others.  It means the whole business of representing a language on the page – ''''ortho'''dox writing'.  It refers to how a writer shapes the letters (in handwriting), or what font s/he chooses to use on the computer; to the way [[diacritical]] marks are used; all other forms of showing language use in writing; and to spelling.  Indeed, sometimes the word '''orthography''' is used, in pompous British English, to mean 'spelling'.  In [[American English]], it appears to mean 'spelling' much more normally.  Indeed, the terms '''orthography''' and 'spelling' are used interchangeably, for example in a leading text-book of Linguistics – [[Fromkin and Rodman]] (1993) - where the Index item reads 'Orthography … ''See also''  Spelling'.  In French the equivalent – ''orthographie'' – is the normal word.