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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... interactions are analyzed to display the nature of the rhetorical processes involved in the constitution and presentation of self . Besides the work of Bakhtin and Burke I use various ideas from Paul Ricoeur and Paul Grice as resources ...
... interactions are analyzed to display the nature of the rhetorical processes involved in the constitution and presentation of self . Besides the work of Bakhtin and Burke I use various ideas from Paul Ricoeur and Paul Grice as resources ...
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... interactions are cited in the text as " Book Club Transcripts " and " Office Transcripts , " respectively . Nalayini Fernando typed the manuscript from my handwritten version and , as usual , did a splendid job . Veronica Manlow gave me ...
... interactions are cited in the text as " Book Club Transcripts " and " Office Transcripts , " respectively . Nalayini Fernando typed the manuscript from my handwritten version and , as usual , did a splendid job . Veronica Manlow gave me ...
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... interaction with others , usually real ones , but often with imagi- nary and fantastic ones . Indeed , whenever one speaks of a human being , he or she is describing an entity that is dialogically situated and discursively active . The ...
... interaction with others , usually real ones , but often with imagi- nary and fantastic ones . Indeed , whenever one speaks of a human being , he or she is describing an entity that is dialogically situated and discursively active . The ...
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... interactions and relation- ships that the individual conducts with others as signs so long as the organ- ism itself and the others address it or refer to it . These acts and the respon- sive acts the discursive organism mobilizes will ...
... interactions and relation- ships that the individual conducts with others as signs so long as the organ- ism itself and the others address it or refer to it . These acts and the respon- sive acts the discursive organism mobilizes will ...
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... interactions and communities . To show that genes influence or determine human conduct , it is necessary to go one step further and show how genes control actual instances of human conduct , to wit , the acts of given individ- uals ...
... interactions and communities . To show that genes influence or determine human conduct , it is necessary to go one step further and show how genes control actual instances of human conduct , to wit , the acts of given individ- uals ...
Contents
Identificatory Processes | 81 |
The Self in Action | 183 |
Epilogue | 275 |
References | 279 |
Index | 291 |
About the Author | 299 |
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