Sign-systems: Patterns of significance

Paul Beynon-Davies
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Chapter 3 in Significance, 2011, pp 41-57 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract In her Earthsea quartet of fantasy novels (Le Guin, 1993) Ursula Le Guin describes a world in which magic is a reality. Wizards perform such magic through the use of special words, and the use of these words allows wizards to manipulate things in the world of Earthsea. In a sense, this use of words is not entirely remote from our use of words in the real Earth. Word use in this fantasy world is an extension and exaggeration of our own everyday relationship with words and language.

Keywords: Facial Expression; Animal Communication; Emotive Facial Expression; Human Facial Expression; Cheek Raiser (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230295025_3

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