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Homo Alphabeticus, Glottographic Exceptionalism, and the Ethnocentric Definition of Writing

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 March 2022

Galen Brokaw
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PMLA , Volume 137 , Issue 1 , January 2022 , pp. 163 - 170
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