Ecological pragmatics: Values, dialogical arrays, complexity, and caring

Pragmatics and Cognition

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 628-652

  Hodges, Bert ^a  

^a GORDON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Action systems; Attunement; Consciousness; Context sensitivity; Ecological psychology; Heterarchy; Nonlinear dynamics; Suffering; Values

Indexed keywords

EID: 85047685532     PISSN: 09290907     EISSN: 15699943     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/pc.17.3.08hod     Document Type: Article

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