Placing subway signs: Practical properties of signs at work

Visual Communication

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 441-462

  Denis, Jérôme ^a   Pontille, David ^b  

^a INSTITUT TELECOM   (France)

^b ÉCOLE DES HAUTES ÉTUDES EN SCIENCES SOCIALES   (France)

Author keywords

ecology; ethnography; placement work; pragmatics; subway signs

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650243157     PISSN: 14703572     EISSN: 17413214     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1470357210382189     Document Type: Article

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