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Publication details [#4789]

Hodge, Carleton T. 1975. Ritual and writing: An inquiry into the origin of Egyptian script. In Kinkade, M. Dale, Kenneth L. Hale and Oswald Werner, eds. Linguistics and anthropology: In honor of C.F. Voegelin. P. De Ridder. pp. 331–350.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

language play | orthography | ritual

Language as a subject

Egyptian

Annotation

H. points out the striking parallelism between the nature of ritual word play in Egyptian and the writing system (suggesting that the latter might have been created on the pattern of the former).