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The presence of self

Drawing on ideas from Charles Sander Pierce, 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.
Print Book, English, 1999
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, Md., 1999
304 pages ; 23 cm
9780847693856, 9780847693849, 0847693856, 0847693848
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Part 1 I: Dialogic Processes Chapter 2 1 Dialogic Acts Chapter 3 2 Rhetoric and the Self Part 4 II: Identificatory Processes Chapter 5 3 Identity: The Continuity and Differentiation of Self Chapter 6 4 The Poetics of Identity Part 7 III: The Self in Action Chapter 8 5 Speaking of the Self Chapter 9 6 The Plays of the Self Chapter 10 Epilogue