Typography & Language in Everyday Life

Prescriptions and Practices

af Sue Walker

Typography & Language in Everyday Life is an illustrated discussion of the relationship between the graphic and linguistic elements of language, using familiar typographic examples from letter-writing conventions to the house style of printers and publishers.Language has graphic as well as linguistic aspects to it, and it is argued here that there are many opportunities for collaboration between typographers and applied linguistics. Organised in two parts, the first introduces aspects of typogra... (Læs mere)