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Signs of National Identity in the Graphic Design of Cypriot Print Advertisements 塞浦路斯平面广告平面设计中的民族认同标志

IF 0.1 4区社会学

AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SEMIOTICS Pub Date : 2020-01-01 DOI: 10.5840/AJS202112667

Evripides Zantides

引用次数: 0

On Insignificance 在渺小

IF 0.1 4区社会学

AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SEMIOTICS Pub Date : 2019-10-28 DOI: 10.5840/ajs20175226

M. Leone

引用次数: 2

Inferring Ears 推断的耳朵

IF 0.1 4区社会学

AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SEMIOTICS Pub Date : 2019-08-23 DOI: 10.5840/AJS201982256

Martin Švantner

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引用次数: 2

Toward a Renewed Theory of the Narreme 走向叙事理论的更新

IF 0.1 4区社会学

AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SEMIOTICS Pub Date : 2019-08-23 DOI: 10.5840/AJS201982255

R. Rosenbaum

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引用次数: 3

The Verbal-Kinesic Enactment of Contrast in North American English 北美英语中对比的动词动位生成

IF 0.1 4区社会学

AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SEMIOTICS Pub Date : 2019-08-08 DOI: 10.5840/AJS20198754

Jennifer Hinnell

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引用次数: 6

Transformative Communication as Semiotic Scaffolding of Cognitive Development 转换交际作为认知发展的符号学支架

IF 0.1 4区社会学

AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SEMIOTICS Pub Date : 2019-07-18 DOI: 10.5840/AJS201971753

D. Tunç

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引用次数: 1

An Ontological Approach to Meaning Making through PATH and Gestalt Foregrounding in Climax 通过PATH和格式塔在Climax中的前景分析意义的本体论方法

IF 0.1 4区社会学

AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SEMIOTICS Pub Date : 2019-07-17 DOI: 10.5840/AJS201971652

Lillian A. Black, Katherine Tu, Cliff O'Reilly, Yetian Wang, Paulo Pacheco, R. Harris

引用次数: 3

Index as Scaffold to the Subjunctivity of Children’s Performatives 索引作为儿童表演虚拟语气的支架

IF 0.1 4区社会学

AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SEMIOTICS Pub Date : 2019-07-16 DOI: 10.5840/AJS201971551

Donna E. West

引用次数: 4

The Silence of Movement 寂静的运动

IF 0.1 4区社会学

AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SEMIOTICS Pub Date : 2019-06-06 DOI: 10.5840/ajs20196550

M. Sheets‐Johnstone

引用次数: 5

The Psammetichus Syndrome and Beyond 沙梅克斯综合症及其他

IF 0.1 4区社会学

AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SEMIOTICS Pub Date : 2019-05-23 DOI: 10.5840/AJS201952249

G. Sonesson

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引用次数: 3