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The new icons – icons of change?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 October 2008

James R. Beniger
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Abstract

An examination of a new sense of the word ‘icon’ and the changes it might foreshadow in everyday thought and language

Type
Research Article
Information
English Today , Volume 10 , Issue 3 , July 1994 , pp. 47 - 51
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1994

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