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Argues that anyone—anthropologist, psychologist, or policeman—who uses what people say to find out what people think had better know how speech itself is organized.
Price: $40.00
Pages: 212
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Imprint: University of Pennsylvania Press
Series: Conduct and Communication
Publication Date:
August 3, 2010
ISBN: 9780812200355
Format: eBook
BISACs:
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, Anthropology, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics
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