A01=R. S. Perinbanayagam
Author_R. S. Perinbanayagam
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Product details
- ISBN 9780847693856
- Weight: 426g
- Dimensions: 150 x 226mm
- Publication Date: 19 Jan 2000
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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. These arguments are supported by an analysis of everyday conversations, certain inter-personal encounters, and acts of reading and watching sporting engagements.
R. S. Perinbanayagam is professor of sociology at Hunter College of the City University of New York.
