Meaning as a nonlinear effect: The birth of cool

AILA Review

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 7-27

  Blommaert, Jan ^a  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Complexity; Indeterminacy; Linguistic anthropology; Meaning; Memes; Semiotics; Social media; Sociolinguistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84942050894     PISSN: 14610213     EISSN: 15705595     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/aila.28.01blo     Document Type: Article

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