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Situating Language in the Real-World: The Role of Multimodal Iconicity and Indexicality

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/joc.113 | Journal eISSN: 2514-4820
Language: English
Submitted on: Mar 30, 2020
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Accepted on: Jul 6, 2020
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Published on: Aug 23, 2021
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