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Paul Saenger, Space between words: The origins of silent reading. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1997. Pp. xviii, 480. Hb $75, pb $25.95.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 October 2002

Mark Aronoff
Mark Aronoff
Affiliation:
Linguistics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794-4376, mark.aronoff@stonybrook.edu
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Abstract

This is an impressive, fascinating, and exasperating work of scholarship, based on an astonishingly exhaustive survey of manuscript codices produced in the British Isles and western continental Europe between the 7th and the 13th centuries. Saenger traces the transition from continuous to word-divided script, which, he contends, reflects a fundamental shift in style from reading aloud to reading silently.

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Language in Society , Volume 31 , Issue 4 , October 2002 , pp. 624 - 628
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2002 Cambridge University Press

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