| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 270 pages) : illustrations |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Book Cover; Title; Contents; Notes on contributors page; Introduction: New directions in the empirical study of cultural codes; The restriction of meaning in religious discourse: centripetal devices in a fundamentalist Christian sermon; The gospel of giving: the narrative construction of a sacrificial economy; When scientists saw ghosts and why they stopped: American spiritualism in history; Reading science as text; Paradox in the discourse of science; Putting it together: measuring the syntax of aural and visual symbols. |
| Summary |
Examines the symbolic structure of such important contemporary manifestations of culture as religious discourse, scientific texts, popular music, symbols, art, dance, law and public policy. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Communication -- Social aspects.
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Communication -- Social aspects. |
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Symbolism in communication.
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Symbolism in communication. |
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Discourse analysis.
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Discourse analysis. |
| Indexed Term |
Humans Communication Ethnology |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Wuthnow, Robert.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Vocabularies of public life. London ; New York : Routledge, 1992 (DLC) 91036454 |
| ISBN |
0203222040 (electronic book) |
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9780203222041 (electronic book) |
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9780415076364 |
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0415076366 |
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0415076374 (paperback) |
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9780415076371 (paperback) |
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9786610323272 |
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6610323275 |
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9781134902484 (e-book ; PDF) |
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1134902484 |
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9781134902439 (e-book ; Mobi) |
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1134902433 |
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9781134902477 (e-book ; ePub) |
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1134902476 |
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0415076366 (Cloth) |
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