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As we have noted throughout this book, writing is a symbolic, representational practice. We make sense of things by assigning meaning to signs—words, sounds, images, and objects—through a process of representation. Cultural studies theorist Stuart Hall (1997) writes that representation is a process of assigning meaning to language and culture that happens in two moves.
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Harris, A., Jones, S.H. (2016). Things. In: Writing for Performance. Teaching Writing. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-594-4_4
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