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Figure (of Personhood) Drawing: Scaffolding Signing and Signers in Nepal 人物图:尼泊尔的脚手架签名和签名者

IF 0.5 4区社会学

Signs and Society Pub Date : 2020-01-01 DOI: 10.1086/706770

Erika Hoffmann‐Dilloway

引用次数: 2

Putting Our Scripts in Their Mouths: Orthography, Semiotic Ideologies, and the Embodied Publics of Name Changes in Eastern India 把我们的文字放进他们的嘴里:正字法，符号学意识形态，以及东印度名字变化的具体公众

IF 0.5 4区社会学

Signs and Society Pub Date : 2020-01-01 DOI: 10.1086/706316

Katherine B. Martineau

引用次数: 2

Trilingual Blunders: Signboards, Social Media, and Transnational Sri Lankan Tamil Publics 三语双关语：招牌、社交媒体和跨国斯里兰卡泰米尔人

IF 0.5 4区社会学

Signs and Society Pub Date : 2020-01-01 DOI: 10.1086/706036

C. P. Davis

引用次数: 0

From Transcript to “Trans-Script”: Romanized Santali across Semiotic Media 从抄本到“Trans Script”：符号学媒介中的罗马化Santali

IF 0.5 4区社会学

Signs and Society Pub Date : 2020-01-01 DOI: 10.1086/706549

N. Choksi

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引用次数: 2

Balance, Yoga, Neoliberalism 平衡，瑜伽，新自由主义

IF 0.5 4区社会学

Signs and Society Pub Date : 2019-09-01 DOI: 10.1086/703088

A. Rosen

引用次数: 7

Making Sense of Facebook’s Content Moderation: A Posthumanist Perspective on Communicative Competence and Internet Memes 理解Facebook的内容节制：从后人文主义视角看交际能力和网络记忆

IF 0.5 4区社会学

Signs and Society Pub Date : 2019-09-01 DOI: 10.1086/704763

Ondřej Procházka

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引用次数: 6

Humanity and Its Beneficiaries: Footing and Stance-Taking in an International Criminal Trial 人性及其受益者:国际刑事审判的立足点与立场

IF 0.5 4区社会学

Signs and Society Pub Date : 2019-09-01 DOI: 10.1086/705279

Sigurd D’hondt

引用次数: 4

Aspirational Histories of Third World Cosmopolitanism: Dialectical Interactions in Afro-Chinese Beijing 第三世界世界主义的抱负史:非裔华人北京的辩证互动

IF 0.5 4区社会学

Signs and Society Pub Date : 2019-09-01 DOI: 10.1086/704011

Jay Ke‐Schutte

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引用次数: 5

Tell Me That I Am Not a Ciganin, Damn Your Mother! The Social and Political Consequences of Enregisterment in Bulgaria 告诉我我不是契加宁人，该死的你妈妈！保加利亚注册的社会和政治后果

IF 0.5 4区社会学

Signs and Society Pub Date : 2019-09-01 DOI: 10.1086/704985

Cécile Canut

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After After Lorca: Anamnesis and Magic between Jack Spicer and Federico García Lorca 在洛卡之后：杰克·斯派塞和费德里科·加西亚之间的回忆与魔术

IF 0.5 4区社会学

Signs and Society Pub Date : 2019-09-01 DOI: 10.1086/704635

R. E. Shoemaker

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