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5 - Structure and Presentation

from Part II - Elements of Orthography

Marco Condorelli
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University of Central Lancashire, Preston
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Chapter 5 focuses on the most frequent ways in which the orthographic elements established in the previous chapter are organised, following segmental, suprasegmental and morphological structures. Examples include the interrelation between graphemes and other orthographic units, like tildes and accents; the recurrence of graphemes in frequently recurring clusters and the use of ligatures across orthographic units. A short section on the importance of direction (left-to-right, right-to-left, top-to-bottom, etc.) in historical orthography is also provided. The chapter also focuses on the overlap between orthographic structure and the visual aspect of a document, namely the ways in which writing participates in the mise-en-page. This section argues for the importance of a full, physical document as a considerable part of the overall communicative event that is orthography. The visual programme in a given text, namely its layout, decoration and illustration, usually acts as a cohesive and structural tool alongside written marks, such as chapter headings or meta-textual commentary. Lastly, spacing, justification and abbreviation are also discussed.

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Peikola, M., Mäkilähde, A., Varila, M.-L., Salmi, H. & Skaffari, J. (eds.). 2017. Verbal and Visual Communication in Early English Texts. Turnhout: Brepols.Google Scholar
Rogers, H. 2005. Writing Systems: A Linguistic Approach. Malden; Oxford: Blackwell Publishing (and especially pp. 13–18 in Chapter 2).Google Scholar
Mountford, J. 1989. ‘Language and writing-systems’. In Collinge, N. E. (ed.), An Encyclopedia of Language. London: Routledge, pp. 701–39.Google Scholar
Sampson, G. 1985. Writing Systems: A Linguistic Introduction. Stanford: Stanford University Press.Google Scholar
Tesnière, M.-H., 2020. ‘The mise-en-page in Western manuscripts’. In Coulson, F. & Babcock, R. (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Latin Palaeography. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 619–32.Google Scholar

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  • Structure and Presentation
  • Marco Condorelli, University of Central Lancashire, Preston
  • Book: Introducing Historical Orthography
  • Online publication: 15 September 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009122009.005
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  • Marco Condorelli, University of Central Lancashire, Preston
  • Book: Introducing Historical Orthography
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  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009122009.005
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  • Structure and Presentation
  • Marco Condorelli, University of Central Lancashire, Preston
  • Book: Introducing Historical Orthography
  • Online publication: 15 September 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009122009.005
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