Language and Social Reality
The Case of Telling the Convict Code, Current Continental Research
D. L. Wieder(Author)
University Press of America
Published on 12. April 1988
Book
Paperback/Softback
236 pages
978-0-8191-6464-3 (ISBN)
Description
B>Originally published in 1973, this study, based on Wieder's investigation of a halfway house program designed for parolees previously convicted of narcotics offenses, raises important questions for semiotics and constitutes a major, empirically based challenge to much standard doctrine in the theory of signs, as well as in sociology. Co-published with the Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Lanham, MD
United States
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
454 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8191-6464-3 (9780819164643)
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D.L. Wieder is Professor of Sociology at the University of Oklahoma.