Language and Social Reality: The Case of Telling the Convict Code, Current Continental Research - Softcover

Wieder, D. L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 081916464X ISBN 13: 9780819164643

Publisher: University Press of America, 1988

Synopsis

B>Originally published in 1973, this study, based on Wieder's investigation of a halfway house program designed for parolees previously convicted of narcotics offenses, raises important questions for semiotics and constitutes a major, empirically based challenge to much standard doctrine in the theory of signs, as well as in sociology. Co-published with the Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology.

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About the Author

D.L. Wieder is Professor of Sociology at the University of Oklahoma.

Edition details

• Publisher: University Press of America
• Publication date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 081916464X
• ISBN 13: 9780819164643
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 236