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Reis, Carlos TOWARDS A SEMIOTICS OF IDEOLOGY 1993. viii, 163 pp. Clothbound. ISBN 3-11-011829-7 DM 118,00; approx. US $ 81,50 Mouton de Gruyter >internet:100064.2307Mail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issuecompuserve.com Pragmatics, Text Ling This monograph approaches the question of ideology from a new perspective. Stressing the communicative potentialities of ideology and the persuasive character of its textual practices, this book establishes links between ideological semiosis and narrative. Fishman, Joshua A., ed. THE EARLIEST STAGE OF LANGUAGE PLANNING: THE "FIRST CONGRESS" PHENOMENON 1993. viii, 351 pp. Clothbound. ISBN 3-11-013530-2 DM 208,00; approx. US $ 143,00 Mouton de Gruyter >internet:100064.2307
compuserve.com Sociolinguistics, Lang Planning Successful congresses and the circumstances leading to them are differentiated from those that have no discernible effects on the problems facing their particular languages. This is the first such investigation.