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Symbolic communication : signifying calls and the police response / Peter K. Manning.
LIBRA HV7936.C79 M36 1988
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Manning, Peter K.
- Series:
- MIT Press series on organization studies ; 9.
- MIT Press series on organization studies ; 9
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Communication in police administration--Great Britain.
- Communication in police administration.
- Communication in police administration--United States.
- Police communication systems--Great Britain.
- Police communication systems.
- Police communication systems--United States.
- Semiotics.
- United States.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 309 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [1988]
- Summary:
- This first major empirical work on the semiotics of social action goes a long way toward answering substantive, theoretical and pragmatic questions on how codes actually operate in a specific social setting.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: pages [283]-298.
- ISBN:
- 0262132346
- OCLC:
- 18052048
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