Wolfgang Klein as Don Quixote [Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development]

• Jean-Marc Dewaele ^[1]
  1. [1] University College London

     University College London

     Reino Unido

     
• Localización: International journal of the sociology of language, ISSN 0165-2516, Nº. 289-290, 2024 (Ejemplar dedicado a: The Politics of Academic Reading: 50th Anniversary Issue of IJSL), págs. 69-73
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Wolfgang Klein’s paper Writing or reading, but not both, or: a proposal reintroduce cuneiform writing using the hammer and chisel is a great example of ex absurdo reasoning to introduce very serious questions about the exponential increase in the quantity of publications in our field and the impossibility of keeping up with everything. The proposed solutions to limit output and enhance its quality are humourous and absurd as they are inoperable. Wolfgang Klein adopts the position of Don Quixote charging windmills in Cervante’s El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha published in the early seventeenth century. I argue that researchers are free to read and write as much as they want about any topic that fascinates them. Doing so judiciously will allow them to thrive.