UID:
almafu_9959244731902883
Umfang:
1 online resource (279 p.)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-134-90247-6
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1-134-90248-4
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1-280-32327-2
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0-203-22204-0
Inhalt:
Examines the symbolic structure of such important contemporary manifestations of culture as religious discourse, scientific texts, popular music, symbols, art, dance, law and public policy
Anmerkung:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Book Cover; Title; Contents; Notes on contributors page; Introduction: New directions in the empirical study of cultural codes; The restriction of meaning in religious discourse: centripetal devices in a fundamentalist Christian sermon; The gospel of giving: the narrative construction of a sacrificial economy; When scientists saw ghosts and why they stopped: American spiritualism in history; Reading science as text; Paradox in the discourse of science; Putting it together: measuring the syntax of aural and visual symbols
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The musical structure and social context of number one songs, 1955 to 1988: an exploratory analysisA theory of pictorial discourse; Decoding the syntax of modern dance; Metaphors of industrial rationality: the social construction of electronics policy in the United States and France; The parameters of possible constitutional interpretation; The role of elites in setting agendas for public debate: a historical case; Materialism, ideology, and political change
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-415-07636-6
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.4324/9780203222041
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