Writing Systems: A Linguistic Introduction Robert H. Bates So you’re tired of being

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Writing Systems: A Linguistic Introduction Robert H. Bates So you’re tired of beingTo say that writing has as much claim as speech to be treated as language may strike the reader as a statement of the obvious. But the fact is that, although the tide is beginning to turn now, for most of the twentieth century linguistics has almost wholly ignored writing. It is not necessary to accept all the theories of the French critic Jacques Derrida in order to agree with him when he describes writing as "the wandering outcast of linguistics."