The presence of self / R.S. Perinbanayagam.

Drawing 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...

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Main Author: Perinbanayagam, R. S., 1934-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2000.
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Summary:Drawing 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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xiv, 299 p.)
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Awards:Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction Charles Horton Cooley Award, 2001.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-290) and index.
ISBN:9781461645269
1461645263
Reproduction Note:Electronic reproduction.
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