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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... participants . It is in these contin- uing dialogical processes that an action occurs and a presence of self is real- ized . The grammar of the self , for Mead , is the grammar of interrelating an objective and subjective sense of being ...
... participants . It is in these contin- uing dialogical processes that an action occurs and a presence of self is real- ized . The grammar of the self , for Mead , is the grammar of interrelating an objective and subjective sense of being ...
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... participants in its evolving moments . The individual is endowed with certain faculties that ensure that his or her actions become indubitably dialogical constructions . A human , then , undertakes an act and as he or she is in the ...
... participants in its evolving moments . The individual is endowed with certain faculties that ensure that his or her actions become indubitably dialogical constructions . A human , then , undertakes an act and as he or she is in the ...
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... participants become the interactional other of each other and each orients his or her conduct by anticipating the responses of the other . " Thus rules of conduct transform , " Goffman continues , " both action and inaction into ...
... participants become the interactional other of each other and each orients his or her conduct by anticipating the responses of the other . " Thus rules of conduct transform , " Goffman continues , " both action and inaction into ...
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... participants are subject to " free play , " no doubt . Nevertheless for immediate purposes , and in order to prosecute an action in response to the issued words , he or she has to assume if not an origin , at least an originating ...
... participants are subject to " free play , " no doubt . Nevertheless for immediate purposes , and in order to prosecute an action in response to the issued words , he or she has to assume if not an origin , at least an originating ...
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... individual must also produce his or her own " circumstances , behavior , utterances ” to give the other the criteria for his or her own uses . Each participant , that is , produces his or her Rhetoric and the Self 55.
... individual must also produce his or her own " circumstances , behavior , utterances ” to give the other the criteria for his or her own uses . Each participant , that is , produces his or her Rhetoric and the Self 55.
Contents
Identificatory Processes | 81 |
The Self in Action | 183 |
Epilogue | 275 |
References | 279 |
Index | 291 |
About the Author | 299 |
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