Visible Speech

by John DeFrancis

Book Overview

Visible Speech is an attempt to set the record straight about the nature of writing. John DeFrancis, a noted specialist in the Chinese language, shows that writing can be based only upon a sound system and not upon any other linguistic level. He corrects the erroneous views of Chinese writing as pictographic, ideographic, logographic, or morphemic, and defends his conclusion that because of these misrepresentations, the nature of all writing continues...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824812077
• ISBN13: 9780824812072
• Release Date: June 1989
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"