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Discursive Acts - Language, Signs, and Selves (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
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Discursive Acts - Language, Signs, and Selves (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
Series: Communication & Social Order
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Language, Signs and Selves applies conversational analysis to the
discourse of everyday life and its roles in social behavior. The
explanation offered of the complex elements and processes of
language use is theoretically and empirically grounded,
synthesizing European post structuralist theory and semiotics with
American pragmatist currents. This book parallels work done under
other rubrics sociolinguistics, conversation and discourse
analysis, and ethnomethodology. This work, however, presents the
same matter from a different standpoint. While enthnomethodology
and sociolinguistics focus on certain formal properties of
conversations, they have pursued the quest for these properties
with great methodological rigor, while avoiding questions about
intentions. In their work, as in that of many structuralists,
discourse has become depersonalized, with the linguistic form
itself becoming an independent entity sealed from the world of
selves, interaction, conflict, and suffering. Perinbanayagam's
interest is in displaying the dialogic properties of such
discourses, conceiving each element in them as pragmatic and
directed. In many ways Language, Signs and Selves is an enlargement
and exemplification of themes discussed in the analysis of
language, interactions, and social relationships. The author takes
dialogue to be the central event of human being and doing and
argues that it is the defining principle of all actions and
interactions. Drawing from a variety of sources, he seeks to
construct a theory of interaction between humans that is
dialectical in all senses of the word; that is to say, a theory
concerned with dialects and double processes, as well as with
speaking and the logic of relational processes.
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