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f munication across space and time ● Origin: For over two millennia ● Focus: Medium of literature a source of standards of linguistic excellence with permanence and authority (esp. before 20th century) Supporters39。 Higgins (1985) social cognitive consequences of munication tend to be greater for written than for oral munication … the alphabet converted the Greek spoken tongue into a artifact, thereby separating it from the speaker and making it into a ‘language’, that is an object available for inspection, reflection, analysis Further explanations ● More formal amp。 valuable for some sophisticated purposes ● Displaying several unique features Influence spoken language ● A means for children to extend spoken vocabulary ● Words through written medium ● The whole of a language from written form (Latin) ● Source of modern spoken language (Hebrew) Compromise ● Two different amp。 written static Not rejecting the phonemic principle The unit of content is expressed in two ways Little account of the differences in the nature of the two forms Focusing on differences in form and function Not denying the phonic aspect of writing Speech a proce