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Gender, Class, Race, and Region in “Bilingual” Bolivia “双语”玻利维亚的性别、阶级、种族和地区

IF 0.5 4区社会学

Signs and Society Pub Date : 2018-09-01 DOI: 10.1086/699668

Karl F. Swinehart

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引用次数: 8

Linguistic Prerequisites to Cultural Analysis: Lars Levander’s Reocentric Vision of Vernacular Language and Swedish Peasant Life 文化分析的语言先决条件:拉尔斯·莱凡德对乡土语言和瑞典农民生活的重新中心视野

IF 0.5 4区社会学

Signs and Society Pub Date : 2018-09-01 DOI: 10.1086/699662

D. Karlander

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引用次数: 1

Undecontextualizable: Performativity and the Conditions of Possibility of Linguistic Symbolism 不可语境化：语言象征主义的表现性与可能性条件

IF 0.5 4区社会学

Signs and Society Pub Date : 2018-09-01 DOI: 10.1086/699599

Luke Fleming

引用次数: 1

Forensic Afterlives 法医余生

IF 0.5 4区社会学

Signs and Society Pub Date : 2018-09-01 DOI: 10.1086/699597

Zoë Crossland

引用次数: 8

Citizenship as a Communicative Effect 公民身份作为一种交际效果

IF 0.5 4区社会学

Signs and Society Pub Date : 2018-09-01 DOI: 10.1086/699539

Indivar Jonnalagadda

引用次数: 2

Listening versus Lingwashing: Promise, Peril, and Structural Oblivion When White South Africans Learn Indigenous African Languages 聆听与洗脑:南非白人学习非洲土著语言的希望、危险与结构性遗忘

IF 0.5 4区社会学

Signs and Society Pub Date : 2018-09-01 DOI: 10.1086/699250

J. McIntosh

引用次数: 3

Educating Openness: Umberto Eco’s Poetics of Openness as a Pedagogical Value 教育的开放性:作为教育价值的昂贝托·艾柯的开放性诗学

IF 0.5 4区社会学

Signs and Society Pub Date : 2018-03-01 DOI: 10.1086/695567

Cary Campbell

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引用次数: 11

Trace, Revelation, and Interpretant in Archaeological Research: The Graffiti of Huaca Colorada, Peru 考古研究中的痕迹、启示与阐释:秘鲁科罗拉多华卡的涂鸦

IF 0.5 4区社会学

Signs and Society Pub Date : 2018-03-01 DOI: 10.1086/696799

Edward Swenson

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引用次数: 9

The Meaning Making of the Built Environment in the Fascist City: A Semiotic Approach 法西斯城市建筑环境的意义建构:符号学研究

IF 0.5 4区社会学

Signs and Society Pub Date : 2018-03-01 DOI: 10.1086/696850

A. Nanni, F. Bellentani

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引用次数: 5

Students’ Reparticularization of Chinese Language and Culture at the University of Rwanda Confucius Institute 卢旺达大学孔子学院学生对中国语言文化的重新界定

IF 0.5 4区社会学

Signs and Society Pub Date : 2018-03-01 DOI: 10.1086/696798

A. Stambach, K. Wamalwa

引用次数: 3