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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