Making sense together: A dynamical account of linguistic meaning-making

Semiotica

Volumn 194, Issue , 2013, Pages 39-62

  Tylén, Kristian ^a   Fusaroli, Riccardo ^a   Bundgaard, Peer F ^a   Østergaard, Svend ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Affordances; Categorization; Conceptual models; Meaning making; Social dynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877990575     PISSN: 00371998     EISSN: 16133692     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/sem-2013-0021     Document Type: Article

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