The Presence of SelfDrawing on ideas from Charles Sanders Peirce, George Herbert Mead, Kenneth Burke, and Mikhail Bakhtin, this work focuses on the centrality of the social act in describing and understanding the beingness of the human individual, situating such acts in dialogic and rhetorical processes. Such processes enable actors to give presence to their selves and, it is claimed, put them into play by using both a logic and a poetic of identity. These arguments are supported by an analysis of everyday conversations, certain inter-personal encounters, and acts of reading and watching sporting engagements. |
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... achieved dialogically by observing , as faithfully and frequently as possible , various rules and specifica- tions . Saving face , one's own as well as that of the other , maintaining demeanor and observing deference , cooling the mark ...
... achieved dialogically by observing , as faithfully and frequently as possible , various rules and specifica- tions . Saving face , one's own as well as that of the other , maintaining demeanor and observing deference , cooling the mark ...
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... achieved between the two . There is , however , an ambiguity in the concept of answerability that a social psy- chology must exploit . One is answerable , reflexively , in a " unity of guilt " for ones own acts ; that is , one must ...
... achieved between the two . There is , however , an ambiguity in the concept of answerability that a social psy- chology must exploit . One is answerable , reflexively , in a " unity of guilt " for ones own acts ; that is , one must ...
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... achieve catharsis even in environments that are safe only in varying degrees . The catharsis is achieved by a deliberate act of the self , by in fact putting the self into varying degrees of danger and experiencing the aftereffects ...
... achieve catharsis even in environments that are safe only in varying degrees . The catharsis is achieved by a deliberate act of the self , by in fact putting the self into varying degrees of danger and experiencing the aftereffects ...
Contents
Dialogic Acts | 3 |
Rhetoric and the Self | 49 |
The Continuity and Differentiation of Self | 83 |
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