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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... vocabularies , it too exists . This is the self . Once a self is formulated this way , it will certainly influence any action that issues forth . The self , however , is never complete , never safe and intact . It is always a tentative ...
... vocabularies , it too exists . This is the self . Once a self is formulated this way , it will certainly influence any action that issues forth . The self , however , is never complete , never safe and intact . It is always a tentative ...
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... vocabularies of motives , and as discursive definitions and programs that an individual would use in prosecuting his or her lines of action . It is in the operation of these dialogical processes between an I and me on the one hand and ...
... vocabularies of motives , and as discursive definitions and programs that an individual would use in prosecuting his or her lines of action . It is in the operation of these dialogical processes between an I and me on the one hand and ...
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... vocabularies to arrive at a sense of temporality . Time is a presence in consciousness , as in interactions , as com- plex sign - systems . These sign - systems are organized in numerical forms , in linear configurations , or circular ...
... vocabularies to arrive at a sense of temporality . Time is a presence in consciousness , as in interactions , as com- plex sign - systems . These sign - systems are organized in numerical forms , in linear configurations , or circular ...
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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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