Lorsque la langue ne rencontre pas l’écriture

Looking at both successful (and unsuccessful) attempts to crack ancient undeciphered writing systems over the course of history, the aim of this paper is to study how decipherment can contribute to a general theory of writing. It is argued that two conditions have to be fulfilled for decipherment to...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Isabelle Klock-Fontanille
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Université de liège 2018-10-01
Series:Signata
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/signata/1839