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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... 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 poetic enterprise , and I delineate a few strategic ...
... 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 poetic enterprise , and I delineate a few strategic ...
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... signs " ( [ 1868 ] 1958 : 41 ) . The acts and experiences of the " external world " are given interpreta- tions — that is , provided with signs and then made into features of one's con- sciousness - thematized and made into a more or ...
... signs " ( [ 1868 ] 1958 : 41 ) . The acts and experiences of the " external world " are given interpreta- tions — that is , provided with signs and then made into features of one's con- sciousness - thematized and made into a more or ...
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... signs , privi- leges , and obligations , all of them socially defined and learned . Once having taken his or her own role , he or she takes the role of the other and incorpo- rates into such a taking the class , gender and race , power ...
... signs , privi- leges , and obligations , all of them socially defined and learned . Once having taken his or her own role , he or she takes the role of the other and incorpo- rates into such a taking the class , gender and race , power ...
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... signs , is possible because like Heraclitus's river , meanings become perennially commuting variables . Each word ... sign , of freeplay . The one seeks to decipher , dreams of deciphering , a truth or an origin which is free from ...
... signs , is possible because like Heraclitus's river , meanings become perennially commuting variables . Each word ... sign , of freeplay . The one seeks to decipher , dreams of deciphering , a truth or an origin which is free from ...
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... sign ( 5 : 475 ) . Thus , an interpretant is an effect in an interpreter . The logical interpre- tant is a concept ( 5 : 486 ) and is the only interpretant “ properly denominated a concept " ( 5 : 467 ) . Furthermore , such intellectual ...
... sign ( 5 : 475 ) . Thus , an interpretant is an effect in an interpreter . The logical interpre- tant is a concept ( 5 : 486 ) and is the only interpretant “ properly denominated a concept " ( 5 : 467 ) . Furthermore , such intellectual ...
Contents
Identificatory Processes | 81 |
The Self in Action | 183 |
Epilogue | 275 |
References | 279 |
Index | 291 |
About the Author | 299 |
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