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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... are in fact conducted , I argue further , drawing from the work of Mikhail Bakhtin and Kenneth Burke , by deploying language in varying rhetorical modes and reaping the fruits thereof . With these means a self is given a xi Preface.
... are in fact conducted , I argue further , drawing from the work of Mikhail Bakhtin and Kenneth Burke , by deploying language in varying rhetorical modes and reaping the fruits thereof . With these means a self is given a xi Preface.
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... rhetorical achievement , one supported by a logic of signs . Fur- ther , insofar as identity is achieved through the use of language , a poetic of identity becomes impossible to avoid . To use signs to construct identity is in fact a ...
... rhetorical achievement , one supported by a logic of signs . Fur- ther , insofar as identity is achieved through the use of language , a poetic of identity becomes impossible to avoid . To use signs to construct identity is in fact a ...
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... rhetorical questions : Is cultural evolution also an autonomous force in the shaping of human diver- sity ? The question is all the more necessary because we know that the structures and functions of our " capacity for culture ...
... rhetorical questions : Is cultural evolution also an autonomous force in the shaping of human diver- sity ? The question is all the more necessary because we know that the structures and functions of our " capacity for culture ...
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... rhetorical though they may be , can be given directly and simply . If we must use the metaphor of the leash , the answer is that indeed the leash is so long and flexible that for all practical human purposes it doesn't make a difference ...
... rhetorical though they may be , can be given directly and simply . If we must use the metaphor of the leash , the answer is that indeed the leash is so long and flexible that for all practical human purposes it doesn't make a difference ...
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... of appearance and discourse . These acts of making oneself understood are in fact " rhetorical devices ” ( Burke 1969b : 65 ) strategies adopted “ to form attitudes or to induce action " ( Burke 1969b : 49 Chapter 2: Rhetoric and the Self.
... of appearance and discourse . These acts of making oneself understood are in fact " rhetorical devices ” ( Burke 1969b : 65 ) strategies adopted “ to form attitudes or to induce action " ( Burke 1969b : 49 Chapter 2: Rhetoric and the Self.
Contents
Identificatory Processes | 81 |
The Self in Action | 183 |
Epilogue | 275 |
References | 279 |
Index | 291 |
About the Author | 299 |
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