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This highly illustrated text develops the first systematic analysis of the ways we interpret language as it is materially placed in the world. This is essential reading for anyone with an interest in language and the way we communicate.

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'This is an important and highly original book which is likely to initiate a whole new approach to teaching and researching language in social life.' – BAAL Book Prize Panel

'Discourses in Place is a pioneering study that establishes the field of
geosemiotics.' – Linguist List

'This is a useful book for the study of semiotics, human geography and cultural anthropology ... Written in a reader-friendly style, gurus, undergraduates and laypeople will find it accessible and informative.' – Discourse Studies



Table of Contents
1: Geosemiotics 2: Indexicality 3: The Interaction Order 4: Visual Semiotics 5: Interlude on Geosemiotics 6: Place Semiotics: Code Preference 7: Place Semiotics: Inscription 8: Place Semiotics: Emplacement 9: Place Semiotics: Discourse in Time and Space 10: Indexicality, Dialogicality, and Selection in Action Glossary References

Discourses in Place Language in the Material World

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    A Paperback by Ron Scollon, Suzie Wong Scollon

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      Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
      Published 4/24/2003 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN-13 9780415290494
      978-0415290494
      ISBN-10 041529049X
      Also in:
      Semiotics / semiology Literature: history and criticism

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This highly illustrated text develops the first systematic analysis of the ways we interpret language as it is materially placed in the world. This is essential reading for anyone with an interest in language and the way we communicate.

      Trade Review

      'This is an important and highly original book which is likely to initiate a whole new approach to teaching and researching language in social life.' – BAAL Book Prize Panel

      'Discourses in Place is a pioneering study that establishes the field of
      geosemiotics.' –       Linguist List

      'This is a useful book for the study of semiotics, human geography and cultural anthropology ... Written in a reader-friendly style, gurus, undergraduates and laypeople will find it accessible and informative.' – Discourse Studies



      Table of Contents
      1: Geosemiotics 2: Indexicality 3: The Interaction Order 4: Visual Semiotics 5: Interlude on Geosemiotics 6: Place Semiotics: Code Preference 7: Place Semiotics: Inscription 8: Place Semiotics: Emplacement 9: Place Semiotics: Discourse in Time and Space 10: Indexicality, Dialogicality, and Selection in Action Glossary References

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