A01=Robert Perinbanayagam
Age Group_Uncategorized
Age Group_Uncategorized
Author_Robert Perinbanayagam
automatic-update
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=HPCB
Category=HPM
Category=HPS
Category=JHB
Category=QDHF
Category=QDTM
Category=QDTS
Communication
COP=United States
Delivery_Delivery within 10-20 working days
eq_bestseller
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_society-politics
history and theory of philosophy
Language_English
PA=Available
Philosophy of Language
Price_€50 to €100
PS=Active
Semiotics
social and political philosophy
sociology theory and methodology
Sociology Theory and Methods
softlaunch
Symbolic Interaction
Product details
- ISBN 9780739172407
- Weight: 426g
- Dimensions: 159 x 236mm
- Publication Date: 12 Oct 2012
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
The work is an examination of the role of language in the constitution of self and in the presentation of identity. Following the path laid out by George Herbert Mead, Kenneth Burke and Mikhail Bakhtin the work presents self, identity and meaning as ongoing accomplishments between human actors who participate in what may be termed the dramas of human relations. Human agents use language as symbolic actions with which they transform themselves and others, as well as places and things, clothing and money etc into meanings with which they conduct their lives.
Robert Perinbanayagam has taught at Hunter College of the City University of New York for several years and recently retired from it. He is the author of Signifying Acts, Discursive Acts, Games and Sport in Everyday Life and The Presence of Self, which wonthe theory prize given by the theory section of the American Sociological Association and the Cooley Award from the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction. The latter society also conferred the G.H. Mead award for distinguished contribution to the field of interactional studies.
