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Knowing Is Belonging: Recognitional Deixis and Emergence of Common Ground in Religious Conversion 认识即归属:宗教皈依中的认知指示与共同点的出现

IF 0.5 4区社会学

Signs and Society Pub Date : 2019-03-01 DOI: 10.1086/702441

M. Khachaturyan

引用次数: 2

The “Tiny Hand” of Donald Trump and the Metapragmatics of Typographic Parody 唐纳德·特朗普的“小手”与类型模仿的元语用学

IF 0.5 4区社会学

Signs and Society Pub Date : 2019-03-01 DOI: 10.1086/702567

Aurora Donzelli, Alexandra Powell Bugden

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引用次数: 3

Linguistic and Civic Refinement in the N’ko Movement of Manding-Speaking West Africa 西非曼定语地区恩科运动中的语言与公民修养

IF 0.5 4区社会学

Signs and Society Pub Date : 2019-03-01 DOI: 10.1086/702554

Coleman Donaldson

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引用次数: 34

Reflections on Parallel Lines in Sociology and Linguistics 关于平行线的社会学和语言学思考

IF 0.5 4区社会学

Signs and Society Pub Date : 2019-03-01 DOI: 10.1086/701426

Deping Lu

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引用次数: 0

Meta-ideologies of Textuality: Authorship, Plagiarism, Copyright 文本性的元意识形态:作者身份、抄袭、版权

IF 0.5 4区社会学

Signs and Society Pub Date : 2019-03-01 DOI: 10.1086/702545

Marcus Perlman

引用次数: 3

The Spatiotemporal Transformations of Lutheran Airplanes 路德会飞机的时空转换

IF 0.5 4区社会学

Signs and Society Pub Date : 2019-01-01 DOI: 10.1086/701049

Courtney Handman

引用次数: 4

Decolonial Time in Bolivia’s Pachakuti 玻利维亚帕查库蒂的非殖民化时代

IF 0.5 4区社会学

Signs and Society Pub Date : 2019-01-01 DOI: 10.1086/701117

Karl F. Swinehart

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引用次数: 7

When Time Matters 当时间很重要

IF 0.5 4区社会学

Signs and Society Pub Date : 2019-01-01 DOI: 10.1086/701150

Karl F. Swinehart, Anna T. Browne Ribeiro

引用次数: 1

Multimodal Chronotopes: Embodying Ancestral Time on Quichua Morning Radio 多模态时钟:体现祖先时间在雀花早间电台

IF 0.5 4区社会学

Signs and Society Pub Date : 2019-01-01 DOI: 10.1086/700641

Georgia Ennis

引用次数: 4

Chronotopes and Social Types in South Korean Digital Gaming 韩国数字游戏的时代制和社交类型

IF 0.5 4区社会学

Signs and Society Pub Date : 2019-01-01 DOI: 10.1086/700704

Stephen C. Rea

引用次数: 8