Frontmatter -- Contents -- Chapter 1. Orthography as social action: Scripts, spelling, identity and power -- Chapter 2. Orthography, publics, and legitimation crisis: The 1996 reform of German -- Chapter 3. Orthography and Orthodoxy in post-Soviet Russia -- Chapter 4. Reclamation, revalorization, and re-Tatarization via changing Tatar orthographies -- Chapter 5. Hindi is perfect, Urdu is messy:The discourse of delegitimation of Urdu in India -- Chapter 6. Spelling and identity in the Southern Netherlands (1750-1830) -- Chapter 7. Orthography as literacy: How Manx was "reduced to writing" -- Chapter 8. Orthography in practice: A Pennsylvania German case study -- Chapter 9. Transcription in practice: Nonstandard orthography -- Chapter 10. Orthography and calligraphic ideology in an Iranian-American heritage school -- Chapter 11. Floating ideologies: Metamorphoses of graphic "Germanness" -- Chapter 12. Whos punctuating what? Sociolinguistic variation in instant messaging -- Chapter 13. How to spell the vernacular: A multivariate study of Jamaican e-mails and blogs -- Chapter 14. "Greeklish": Transliteration practice and discourse in the context of computer-mediated digraphia -- Subject index