Social semiotics and fieldwork: Method and analytics

Qualitative Inquiry

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 113-140

  Vannini, Phillip ^a  

^a ROYAL ROADS UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ethnography; Methodology; Social semiotics; Theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845394308     PISSN: 10778004     EISSN: 15527565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1077800406295625     Document Type: Article

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