Social acts and social systems: Community as metaphor
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Social Acts and Social Systems: Community as Metaphor
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عنوان ژورنال: Linguistics and Education
سال: 1991
ISSN: 0898-5898
DOI: 10.1016/0898-5898(91)90021-a