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Pragmatics & Cognition
Vol. 18:2 (2010) ► pp.457–464
Book review

Nick Enfield. The Anatomy of Meaning: Speech, Gesture, and Composite Utterances
Cambridge University Press, 2009. 264 pp. ISBN 9780521880640hardcover 9780511513053eBook

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| Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies and The University of Texas at Austin
Published online: 13 August 2010
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https://doi.org/10.1075/pc.18.2.10str
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