Silence is Golden: The ‘Anti-communicational’ Linguascaping of Super-elite Mobility

Semiotic Landscapes: Language, Image, Space

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 187-218

  Thurlow, Crispin ^a   Jaworski, Adam ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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