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The social care-taking of the city-kids. Determinants for day-care attendance in early twentieth-century southern Sweden

The introduction of a child day-care system is one of the early welfare interventions targeted towards mothers and young children that over time gained great prominence in the Swedish welfare state. Because quantitative research on day-cares in historical settings is generally scarce, in this study, we focus on the determinants of day-care enrolment in southern Sweden during the early twentieth ce

The Secrets of Plastic Language Revealed : Multimodality, Polysemiosis, and Iconicity

The notion of “plastic language” (or, as we will say in the following, the plastic layer) of the picture goes back to French structuralism, where it was supposed, just like “iconic language”, to be fundamentally based on arbitrary conventions. Nobody nowadays takes seriously the idea of depiction being purely conventional, but we will argue that the same counterclaim should be made with regard to