Who proposed the 'multi-accentuality' of the sign, the sign's inner dialectic and its 'evaluative accent'?
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Correct answer: D. Valentin Voloshinov
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Voloshinov, Marxism and the Philosophy of Language (1929): the sign is an 'arena of class struggle'.
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