Review published in:
The Pragmatics of Internet Memes
Edited by Chaoqun Xie
[Internet Pragmatics 3:2] 2020
► pp. 321–326
Book review

Bradley E. Wiggins. The discursive power of memes in digital culture: Ideology, semiotics and intertextuality

Bradley E. Wiggins. The Discursive Power of Memes in Digital Culture: Ideology, Semiotics and Intertextuality
New York: Routledge, 2019. xvi + 163 pp. ISBN 978-1-13858-840-0 (hbk) 978-0-42949-230-3 (ebk).

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| Technological University Dublin
Published online: 06 April 2020
https://doi.org/10.1075/ip.00052.die
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