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Now I want to focus on the concept of “zone of social variation” in Sebba’s argument in order to show that his point of view can be contested by a different approach, as Deumert suggest (2014, p. 142).

According to Sebba, while considering writing as a social practice is almost easy to see, it is not the case with orthography. But it can be…[Read more]

Dear colleagues,

This is the first part of my post. The second part will be about the “zone of social variation” in Sebba’s argument.

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As a linguist educated in a country with more than sixty natives languages, the orthography of the indigenous languages was a subject of interest in my institutional environment. Nevertheless, besides practicing…[Read more]