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indexical 42; spelling 28, 142;
motivated 36, 42, 169; authority 26;
non-arbitrary 42–3; conformity 26;
outwardly made 44; correctness 26;
social convention 41; globalization 26;
structure of power 44; new media 26;
symbolic 42 recording 28;
signified 39, 41 reform 25;
signifier 39, 41; transcription 28
form as apt for signified 42 stability 49;
sign-maker, sign-making 36, 40; of language system 168;
imagination 170; reliable reproduction 49
interest 36; Street, B. 15
inward 144, 145; stuff of semiosis 47;
outward 144, 145 ‘fixing’ 47
simultaneity 2; Swales, J. 93
logic 2 synaesthesia 36
sites of appearance 36, 48 syntactic ordering 131;
sound materiality 32; processes 65;
affect 46; social factors 65
affordance 46 syntax 73;
sounds 10; role in literacy 64;
letters 10; trends in writing 73, 75
sequences transliterated into letters 63;
speech 25; technology 83;
syllables 27; affordances 173;
words 27 communication 1;
space 33–4, 61; information and communication 17, 23;
logic 2, 4, 34, 45; mode of writing 83;
meaning potential 69, 70; new 6;
placement of elements 2; print based 5;
position 69; writing process 83
visual mode 61, 69 telling the world 140
speech 1, 2, 24, 31, 73; text, textual 3, 5, 33, 36, 47–8, 64, 66, 85–
alphabetically transcribed languages 32; 6, 125;
informal 33; access to 6;
logic of 1, 2, 33; central 87;
materiality 13; communication 47;
mode 2, 31, 73; design 112;
parataxis 151; era of dominance of writing 36;
resources 33; framing 135–6;
shift in logic from speech to writing linguistic only 47;
126, 127; logics of multimodal 123, 125;
sounds 25; look of written 65;
stuff of 13; making of 6;
values attributed 33; meaning 39;
world represented in logic of 2; means 77;
writing connections 34, 123, 126