Identity's Moments : The Self in Action and Interaction

✍ Scribed by Robert Perinbanayagam; Robert S Perinbanayagam

Publisher: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
Year: 2012
Tongue: English
Leaves: 184
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

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 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.

✦ Subjects

Self

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