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Subtitle: The Signs and Meanings of Adolescence (Toronto Studies in Semiotics)
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: October 1994
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9780802004673
Subjects: Adolescents; Children; Linguistic semiotics; Semiotics; Sociology Of Youth; Family / Parenting / Childbirth; Teenagers; Life Stages - Adolescence; Adolescence
First sentence: Although it might seem that teenagers have been around since time immemorial, it turns out that they are, as Doherty (1988: 46) observes, the direct offspring of an incessantly increasing consumerism and a growing dependence upon the media for information and recreation that emerged during the 1950s, changing the course of Western society permanently.