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1 - Toward a Theory of Language Materiality: An Introduction

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Jillian R. Cavanaugh
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CUNY, New York
Shalini Shankar
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Northwestern University, Illinois
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Language and Materiality
Ethnographic and Theoretical Explorations
, pp. 1 - 28
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2017

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