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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... semiotic and tem- poral creativity ; but this is the case only because of the way in which continuity allows for traces of the past as possibilities for present creativity , possibilities that are " there in the present and stretch into ...
... semiotic and tem- poral creativity ; but this is the case only because of the way in which continuity allows for traces of the past as possibilities for present creativity , possibilities that are " there in the present and stretch into ...
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... realized as the subjectivity of the individual . In the semiotic processes by which these " implications ” are apprehended and made relevant in the constitution of a subject , they can be interpreted in Dialogic Acts 29.
... realized as the subjectivity of the individual . In the semiotic processes by which these " implications ” are apprehended and made relevant in the constitution of a subject , they can be interpreted in Dialogic Acts 29.
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Contents
Identificatory Processes | 81 |
The Self in Action | 183 |
Epilogue | 275 |
References | 279 |
Index | 291 |
About the Author | 299 |
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