Social Semiotics for a Complex World: Analysing Language and Social Meaning

by Bob Hodge

Book Overview

Social semiotics reveals language?s social meaning ?- its structures, processes, conditions and effects ?- in all social contexts, across all media and modes of discourse. This important new book uses social semiotics as a one-stop shop to analyse language and social meaning, enhancing linguistics with a sociological imagination.

Social Semiotics for a Complex World develops ideas, frameworks and strategies for better understanding...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 074569621X
• ISBN13: 9780745696218
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.9"