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Reading or writing is not the question: politicizing the politics of scholarly production and reception [Language, Culture and Society]

  • Cécile B. Vigouroux EMAIL logo and Alfonso Del Percio
Published/Copyright: December 3, 2024

Abstract

This commentary is a response to Wolfgang Klein’s paper: Writing or reading, but not both, or: a proposal to reintroduce cuneiform writing using the hammer and chisel.


Corresponding author: Cécile B. Vigouroux, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, British Columbia, V5A 1S6, Canada, E-mail:

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Received: 2024-05-05
Accepted: 2024-08-27
Published Online: 2024-12-03
Published in Print: 2024-09-25

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