The Interpersonal Semiotics of Having a Laugh

Semiotic Margins: Meaning in Multimodalities

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 7-30

  Knight, Naomi K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

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