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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... conversations in an office . These two records of conversational interactions are cited in the text as " Book Club Transcripts " and " Office Transcripts , " respectively . Nalayini Fernando typed the manuscript from my handwritten ...
... conversations in an office . These two records of conversational interactions are cited in the text as " Book Club Transcripts " and " Office Transcripts , " respectively . Nalayini Fernando typed the manuscript from my handwritten ...
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... conversation of gestures which constitutes thinking , or in terms of which thought or reflec- tion proceeds " ( 1934 : 173 ) . This conversation occurs between what Mead calls the " I " and " me " aspects of the self . The “ I ” and ...
... conversation of gestures which constitutes thinking , or in terms of which thought or reflec- tion proceeds " ( 1934 : 173 ) . This conversation occurs between what Mead calls the " I " and " me " aspects of the self . The “ I ” and ...
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... conversation . It is the locus of what Mead calls the " importation of the social process ” ( 1934 : 186 ) . The imported social process is a conversation between “ I ” and “ me ” in the mind of the acting individual and , as in ...
... conversation . It is the locus of what Mead calls the " importation of the social process ” ( 1934 : 186 ) . The imported social process is a conversation between “ I ” and “ me ” in the mind of the acting individual and , as in ...
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... conversation changed , becoming centered on Dylan's appreciation of Miss Winters ' more obvious physical attractions which he had wanted to measure for himself ” ( Brinnin 1955 : 53 ) . Here is another description of Thomas's moves : As ...
... conversation changed , becoming centered on Dylan's appreciation of Miss Winters ' more obvious physical attractions which he had wanted to measure for himself ” ( Brinnin 1955 : 53 ) . Here is another description of Thomas's moves : As ...
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... conversation " that become the initiatives for action are them- selves " imported from the social process ” ( Mead 1934 : 186 ) . This social process enables another dimension of the dialectic of the act to manifest itself . What in ...
... conversation " that become the initiatives for action are them- selves " imported from the social process ” ( Mead 1934 : 186 ) . This social process enables another dimension of the dialectic of the act to manifest itself . What in ...
Contents
Identificatory Processes | 81 |
The Self in Action | 183 |
Epilogue | 275 |
References | 279 |
Index | 291 |
About the Author | 299 |
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