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Original Articles

“Poof! a’m heppily saving the Lord…”: multimodality and evaluative discourses in male toilet graffiti at the University of the Western Cape

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Pages 243-261 | Received 18 Jul 2014, Accepted 03 Aug 2015, Published online: 02 Nov 2015

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