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Book: Semantic Variation: Meaning in Society and in Sociolinguistics

Chapter: 12 The world in words: semiotic mediation, tenor and ideology [2004]

DOI: 10.1558/equinox.30239

Blurb:

1 Introduction; 2 On learning through language: the meaning of semiotic mediation; 3 Naturally occurring discourse and semiotic mediation; 4 The potential of everyday talk: indications from mother-child dialogues; 5 Tenor and the mediation of mental disposition: concluding remarks

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