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Not Citizens of a Classical Mediterranean: Muslim Youth from Marseille Elude a Linguistic Gentrification by the French State 不是古典地中海的公民：马赛的穆斯林青年——法国国家的语言绅士化

IF 0.5 4区社会学

Signs and Society Pub Date : 2018-03-01 DOI: 10.1086/696933

C. Evers

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引用次数: 8

Rogue Pixels: Indexicality and Algorithmic Camouflage 流氓像素：指数性和算法伪装

IF 0.5 4区社会学

Signs and Society Pub Date : 2018-03-01 DOI: 10.1086/696932

Kris Paulsen

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引用次数: 0

The Role of Metaforces in Cultural Motion 元力在文化运动中的作用

IF 0.5 4区社会学

Signs and Society Pub Date : 2018-01-01 DOI: 10.1086/694550

Greg Urban

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引用次数: 2

Deriving the Derivative 衍生衍生工具

IF 0.5 4区社会学

Signs and Society Pub Date : 2018-01-01 DOI: 10.1086/695408

Benjamin Lee

引用次数: 4

Preliminary Disciplines 初步学科

IF 0.5 4区社会学

Signs and Society Pub Date : 2018-01-01 DOI: 10.1086/694552

Bruce Mannheim

引用次数: 27

Divided Values, Shadow Languages: Positioning and Perspective in Linguistic Ideologies 分裂的价值观、影子语言：语言意识形态的定位与透视

IF 0.5 4区社会学

Signs and Society Pub Date : 2018-01-01 DOI: 10.1086/695142

J. T. Irvine

引用次数: 18

Indexicality’s Ambivalent Ground 索引性的矛盾基础

IF 0.5 4区社会学

Signs and Society Pub Date : 2018-01-01 DOI: 10.1086/694753

C. Nakassis

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引用次数: 25

Indexical Disorders and Ritual (De)Centers of Semiosis 索引障碍和仪式（De）中心的Semiosis

IF 0.5 4区社会学

Signs and Society Pub Date : 2018-01-01 DOI: 10.1086/694754

C. Briggs

引用次数: 1

Ancient Ideologies of Ineffability and Their Echoes 古代不可言说的意识形态及其回响

IF 0.5 4区社会学

Signs and Society Pub Date : 2018-01-01 DOI: 10.1086/695143

Naomi Janowitz

引用次数: 0

On the Pragmatic Poetry of Pose: Gesture, Parallelism, Politics 论姿态的语用诗:姿态、平行、政治

IF 0.5 4区社会学

Signs and Society Pub Date : 2018-01-01 DOI: 10.1086/695425

Michael P. Lempert

引用次数: 6