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The plastic of clothing and the construction of visual communication and interaction: a semiotic examination of the eighteenth-century French dress
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 242
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- 17-37
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2020-0050
Embodied ekphrasis of experience: Bodily rhetoric in mediating affect in interaction
In: Semiotica 2020, Issue 235
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- 91-111
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2017-0126
Give Peace a Chant
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Other title information: Popular Music, Politics and Social Protest
Annotation: This monograph offers a unique analysis of social protest in popular music. It presents theoretical descriptions, methodological tools, and an approach that encompasses various fields of musicology, cultural studies, semiotics, discourse analysis, media studies, and political and social sciences. The author argues that protest songs should be taken as a musical genre on their own. He points out that the general approach, when discussing these songs, has been so far that of either analyzing the lyrics or the social context. For some reason, the music itself has been often overlooked. This book attempts to fill this gap. Its central thesis is that a complete overview of these repertoires demands a thorough interaction among contextual, lyrical, and musical elements together. To accomplish this, the author develops a novel model that systemizes and investigates musical repertoires. The model is then applied to four case studies, those, too, chosen among topicsthat are little (or not at all) frequented by scholars.
Identifier: 9783319505374
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Mimicry and Meaning
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Other title information: Structure and Semiotics of Biological Mimicry
Annotation: The present book analyses critically the tripartite mimicry model (consisting of the mimic, model and receiver species) and develops semiotic tools for comparative analysis. It is proposed that mimicry has a double structure where sign relations in communication are in constant interplay with ecological relations between species. Multi-constructivism and toolbox-like conceptual methods are advocated for, as these allow taking into account both the participants’ Umwelten as well as cultural meanings related to specific mimicry cases. From biosemiotic viewpoint, mimicry is a sign relation, where deceptively similar messages are perceived, interpreted and acted upon. Focusing on living subjects and their communication opens up new ways to understand mimicry. Such view helps to explain the diversity of mimicry as well as mimicry studies and treat these in a single framework. On a meta-level, a semiotic view allows critical reflection on the use of mimicry concept in modern biology. The author further discusses interpretations of mimicry in contemporary semiotics, analyses mimicry as communicative interaction, relates mimicry to iconic signs and focuses on abstract resemblances in mimicry. Theoretical discussions are illustrated with detailed excursions into practical mimicry cases in nature (brood parasitism, eyespots, myrmecomorphy, etc.). The book concludes with a conviction that mimicry should be treated in a broader semiotic-ecological context as it presumes the existence of ecological codes and other sign conventions in the ecosystem.
Identifier: 9783319503158
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Interaffectivity: Why interaction is not enough
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 4: Cybersemiotics and Technology-Based Arts
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Musica mathematica
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Other title information: traditions and innovations in contemporary music
Notes: This book was originally published under the title Musica mathematica. Tradicijos ir inovacijos šiuolaikineje muzikoje by Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theater (Vilnius: Lietuvos muzikos ir teatro akademija, 2013, ISBN 978-609-8071-10-8)
Annotation: The concept of musica mathematica seeks to accurately examine the itnersection of two seemingly radically different subject areas. From the perspective of a European perception, the definition of the science of music was a result of the Pythagorean concept of universal harmony. The Pythagoreans were the first in European culture to raise the issue of uniting music and mathematics, sound and number. In the three parts of the monograph, versatile cases of the itnersection of music and mathematics are displayed, moving from philosophical and aesthetic considerations about mathesis to practical studies, discussing the interaction between music and other kinds of art (architecture, painting, poetry and literature) and providing a practical research of contemporary music compositions.
Identifier: 9783631713815
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Sociocultural crossings and borders
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Other title information: musical microhistories
Annotation: In the current global world the interaction between cultures penetrates into musical practices and discourses, radically affecting the sociocultural imagination and altering the established shapes of cultural territories. Yet the history of music demonstrates that the dynamics of cultural encounters and segregations has always been a key factor in the formation of individual and collective identities and in the understanding of other cultures. Cultural expansions and, conversely, the trajectories of displacement of cultural expression are to a varied extent affected by the political, economic, technological and other dimensions of dissemination of musical practices and traditions. In the modern age, the extramusical factors are of equal significance to textual (creation) and contextual (dissemination and reception) configurations of sociocultural interactions. The understanding of sociocultural interactions and borders plays an important role in the appropriation of the musical past and the revival of cultural memory.
Identifier: 9786098071290
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The Shared Mind
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Other title information: Perspectives on intersubjectivity
Annotation: The cognitive and language sciences are increasingly oriented towards the social dimension of human cognition and communication. The hitherto dominant approach in modern cognitive science has viewed social cognition through the prism of the traditional philosophical puzzle of how individuals solve the problem of understanding Other Minds. The Shared Mind challenges the conventional theory of mind approach, proposing that the human mind is fundamentally based on intersubjectivity: the sharing of affective, conative, intentional and cognitive states and processes between a plurality of subjects. The socially shared, intersubjective foundation of the human mind is manifest in the structure of early interaction and communication, imitation, gestural communication and the normative and argumentative nature of language. In this path breaking volume, leading researchers from psychology, linguistics, philosophy and primatology offer complementary perspectives on the role of intersubjectivity in the context of human development, comparative cognition and evolution, and language and linguistic theory.
Identifier: 9789027239068
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Dynamic instances of interaction: The performative function of iconicity in literary texts
In: Sign System Studies 2010, Volume 38, Issue 1/4: Semiotics of Resemblance
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- 270-297
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2010.38.1-4.09
Metaphorical analogies in approaches of Victor Turner and Erving Goffman: Dramaturgy in social interaction and dramas of social life
In: Sign System Studies 2010, Volume 38, Issue 1/4: Semiotics of Resemblance
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- 130-166
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2010.38.1-4.04
Murtuvat merkit
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Other title information: semiotiikan teoreettisen ja soveltavan tutkimuksen näkökulmia
Annotation: The work considers the fracture and transition of signs and texts - and thus also meanings - into each other. Meaning is always formed towards the future. The use of signs to convey and present meanings is already a productive process. Meaning inevitably becomes more than what is conveyed or presented. The production of meanings is also based on various structural elements, rules and practices. Static and permanent as well as dynamic and developing are in constant interaction with each other. The articles in the work represent the rich semiotics of the early 21st century. The approaches and the theories that define them are united by the glow of comprehensive research, in which the differences between sign categories and systems are understood as task-specific and contextual, not essential.
Identifier: 9789515707642
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Biosemiotics
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Other title information: An examination into the signs of life and the life of signs
Notes: originally published in Danish as Biosemiotik. En afhandling om livets tegn og tegnenes liv (2005)
Annotation: Recent debates surrounding the teaching of biology divide participants into three camps based on how they explain the appearance of the human race: evolution, creationism, or intelligent design. Biosemiotics discovers an intriguing higher ground respecting those opposing theories by arguing that questions of meaning and experiential life can be integrated into the scientific study of nature. This groundbreaking book shows how the linguistic powers of humans imply that consciousness emerges in the evolutionary process and that life is based on sign action, not just molecular interaction. Biosemiotics will be essential reading for anyone interested in the nexus of linguistic possibility and biological reality.
Identifier: 9781859661691
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The Logos of the Bios 2
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- Bio-Communication
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Annotation: In Volume 2 the practical application of the early developed pragmatic philosophy of body follows. Articles from 1 to 5 are reviews which cover all organismic kingdoms in special examples, except that of Archaea. The aim was to demonstrate Bio-communication in all domains of life as rule-governed sign-mediated interactions.
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The Logos of the Bios 1
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- Contributions to the Foundation of a three-leveled Biosemiotics
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Annotation: This book opens a new perspective on living nature through the philosophical foundation of biology as an understanding social science. The contributions integrate the pragmatic turn of the theory of science discussion, replacing the solus ipse subject of knowledge of objectivism by the intersubjective - communicative character of thought, experience and research. A three-leveled biosemiotics investigates rule-governed sign-mediated interactions within and between organisms of all organismic kingdoms. This approach underlines the complementarity of syntactic, pragmatic and semantic rules as a precondition for adequately investigating the languagelike structure of the genetic code and the communicative organization of interacting living nature.
Identifier: 9525576019
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Reading as social interaction: The empirical grounding of reading
In: Semiotica 1998, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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- 281-294
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1998.118.3-4.281
Denotationally cued interactional events: A special case
In: Semiotica 1997, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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- 295-318
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1997.114.3-4.295
Dynamic features of polite interaction
In: Semiotica 1997, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1997.114.1-2.111
Semi-orality and semi-literacy in legal institutions as “super-signs”: Analyzing Dutch trial courtroom interaction
In: Synthesis in Diversity, Volume 2
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- 1165-1168
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Semiotic features of human-computer-interaction
In: Synthesis in Diversity, Volume 2
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- 761-764
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Semiotics to facilitate interaction
In: Synthesis in Diversity, Volume 2
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- 1151-1154
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The relation between interaction, semiosis, and language
In: Synthesis in Diversity, Volume 2
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- 961-964
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Diagraming discourse structures: Illocution, interaction, or text?
In: Semiotica 1996, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1996.110.3-4.197
The Socialness of Things
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Other title information: Essays on the Socio-Semiotics of Objects
Notes: This book is based on the proceedings of an international conference which took place at the University of Toronto in 1990.
Annotation: The term "socialness" is a neologism that is used in this volume to call attention to the integration of objects in the social fabric of everyday life. Specialists in material culture studies have understood for some time, that societies consist of both people and artifacts. It is not only with people and animals that we interact but also with objects. The chapters in the first part of the volume deal with artefacts such as furniture, mementoes, and knickknacks, which can be manipulated as social "others" – entities with which one can socialize or make a part in socialisation processes such as establishing a bond, conveying a message, etc. The second section of articles concerns artefacts whose dimensions take such proportions that humans become dwarfed with respect to them, such as tourists travelling to visit them or shoppers being herded through their artificial geography as if flowing within an oversized organism. In the concluding section, the artefacts examined are by contrast so adjusted to the proportion of the human body, so close to it that they become an indissociable part of the social persona sticking to the skin, expressing better than any other means of the socialness - fashion.
Identifier: 3110141337
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Toward a General Rhetoric of Visual Statements: Interaction between Plastic and Iconic Signs
In: Advances in Visual Semiotics: The Semiotic Web 1992-93
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- 581-600
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Beyond Goffman
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Other title information: Studies on Communication, Institution, and Social Interaction
Notes: Based on a conference held Dec. 1987 at the Central Institute of Indian Languages in Mysore, India.
Annotation: This book is a collection of original articles which endeavours to expand the scope of the theoretical views and empirical research Erving Goffman contributed to the social sciences. Most chapters take a critical stand toward his ideas while still recognizing his fundamental contribution to the field. Hence, the title Beyond Goffman. The book is divided into two parts. The first concentrates upon theory and explores Goffman's intellectual heritage (symbolic interactionism, phenomenology, the notion of social situation, the relation between micro and macro levels of analysis) and also examines the way his work relates to contemporary theoretical movements (semiotics, postmodernism, deconstructionism, and feminism). The second part of the book probes the insights found in his diverse empirical studies and expands the domain of their applications.
Identifier: 3110122081
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Politeness strategies in verbal interaction: An analysis of directness and indirectness in speech acts
In: Semiotica 1988, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1988.71.1-2.59
Circumspection in psychotherapy: Structures and strategies of counselor-client interaction
In: Semiotica 1987, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1987.65.3-4.249
Sémiotique en jeu
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- à partir et autour de l'œuvre d'A.J. Greimas
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Other title information: actes de la décade tenue au Centre culturel international de Cerisy-la-Salle du 4 au 14 août 1983
Annotation: Fruit d'une décade tenue au Centre culturel de Cerisy en 1983, l'ouvrage réunit une quinzaine de contributions que sont autant de signes d'ouverture de la part d'une discipline en cours d'évolution. La mise en question porte à la fois sur les postulats (philosophiques et épistemologiques) de la sémiotique, sur ses méthodes (notament face à de noveaux domaines d'investigation comme la musique ou l'architecture) et sur ses enjeus (en particulier quant au status du "sujet" - suje d'énonciation, suject "analytique", sujet de l'interaction sociale). Avec une importante intervention d'A.J. Greimas, que répond ici, sur un ton quasi improvisé, aux questions de l'assistance. Débat avec Paul Ricœur.. The result of a decade held at the Cerisy Cultural Center in 1983, the book brings together some fifteen contributions that are signs of openness on the part of a discipline in the process of evolution. The questioning concerns both the postulates (philosophical and epistemological) of semiotics, its methods (notably in the face of new areas of investigation such as music or architecture) and its challenges (in particular regarding the status of the "subject" - subject of enunciation, "analytical" subject, subject of social interaction). With an important intervention by A.J. Greimas, who answers here, in an almost improvised tone, the questions of the audience. Debate with Paul Ricœur. (Translated with Google translate)
Identifier: 2905572051
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The Identification and role of topic in spoken interaction
In: Semiotica 1987, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1987.65.1-2.129
Interlanguage comparisons in the study of the interactional use of gesture: Progress and prospects
In: Semiotica 1986, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1986.62.1-2.147
A semiology of interaction: Posing the problem
In: Semiotica 1984, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1984.50.3-4.213
Female sexuality, mockery, and a challenge to fate: A reinterpretation of South Nayar talikettukalyanam
In: Semiotica 1984, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1984.50.3-4.249
Review article
In: Semiotica 1984, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1984.50.3-4.269
Seeing and believing: A study of contemporary spiritual readers
In: Semiotica 1984, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1984.50.3-4.191
The Interpretation of pronominal paradigms: Speech situation, pragmatic meaning, and cultural structure
In: Semiotica 1984, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1984.50.3-4.221
The handshake as interaction
In: Semiotica 1983, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1983.45.3-4.249
Stories and story-time in an infant classroom: Some features of language in social interaction
In: Semiotica 1982, Issue 2024-02-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1982.42.2-4.119
Etude des expressions mimiques conventionnelles francaises dans le cadre d´une communication non verbale testées sur des Hongrois
In: Semiotica 1981, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1981.35.1-2.125
Information or affiliation? Effects of intimacy on visual interaction
In: Semiotica 1981, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1981.35.1-2.29
Interactional uses of tone of voice in the United States and Japan
In: Semiotica 1981, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1981.35.1-2.71
Laterality in negation: Are Jakobson and Vavra right?
In: Semiotica 1981, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1981.35.1-2.57
Postural congruence in a naturalistic setting
In: Semiotica 1981, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1981.35.1-2.41
Review article
In: Semiotica 1981, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1981.35.1-2.157
Sonstiges
In: Semiotica 1981, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1981.35.1-2.u
The salience, equivalence, and sequential structure of behavioral elements in different social situations
In: Semiotica 1981, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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- 1-28
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1981.35.1-2.1
Tropes and figures: Symbolization and figuration
In: Semiotica 1981, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1981.35.1-2.93
‘Figures’ and Semiotic Relations: A Rhetoric of Syntax in Balzac’s Sarrasine. An Analysis of the Fictive Text Based on Genette’s Figures III (1972)
In: Semiotica 1978, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1978.24.1-2.113
An Introduction to the Study of ‘Socialization’ through Analyses of Conversational Interaction
In: Semiotica 1978, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1978.24.3-4.277
Communicative Acts: A Semiological Approach to the Empirical Analysis of Filmed Interaction
In: Semiotica 1978, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1978.24.1-2.87
Contrasting Nonverbal Styles in Mother-Child Interaction: Examples from a Study of Child Abuse
In: Semiotica 1978, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1978.24.1-2.33