The Invention of Writing
Channel: Language on the Move
Date: 03/08/2020

This lecture explains why writing was invented, by who, and how they went about it. The lecture is delivered by Distinguished Professor Ingrid Piller as part of the postgraduate unit "Literacies" in Macquarie University's Applied Linguistics program. 
A written version of some of the content in this lecture can be found at https://www.languageonthemove.com/who-invented-writing/ and the lecture also exists as a Twitter thread at https://twitter.com/Lg_on_the_Move/status/1290406124458393600.