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The visual basis of linguistic meaning and its implications for critical discourse analysis: integrating cognitive linguistic and multimodal methods

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The visual basis of linguistic meaning and its implications for critical discourse analysis: integrating cognitive linguistic and multimodal methods. / Hart, Christopher.
In: Discourse and Society, Vol. 27, No. 3, 05.2016, p. 335-350.

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