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Publication details [#41247]

Samuels, David. 2004. Language, meaning, modernity, and doowop. Semiotica 149 : 297–323.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
language | meaning | modernization | nonsense | sense
Place, Publisher
De Gruyter
Journal WWW
www.degruyter.de/journals/order/en.start.html

Annotation

This paper suggests that the distinction between ‘sense’ and ‘nonsense’ lies at the centre of modernity’s sense of language.