Publications

Publication details [#12446]

Hodge, Robert and Gunther R. Kress. 1997. Social Semiotics, Style and Ideology. In Coupland, Nikolas and Adam Jaworski. Sociolinguistics: A Reader and Coursebook. (Modern Linguistics Series). MacMillan. pp. 49–54.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

meaning | social context | social semiotics | sociolinguistics

Person as a subject

Labov, W.

Reprint of

Hodge, Robert and Gunther Kress. 1988. Social semiotics. Polity Press (in association with Basil Blackwell).

Annotation

The authors emphasize the social significance of conventional codes (such as behavioural and visual codes) in their social theory of meaning and language.