Acts, Agencies, and Identity

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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The book examines the interactional processes between individuals using ideas from George Herbert Mead, Kenneth Burke, and Mikhail Bakhtin. It focuses on how people communicate and interact, following a "grammar of motives" proposed by Burke. This grammar consists of six elements: act, agent, scene, agency, attitude, and purpose, which are present in all human conduct and relations. Robert Perinbanayagam applies this grammar to various social phenomena, such as talking, identity, religion, ritual, suicide, games, astrological consultations, and inequality.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-02-15
Mått152 x 229 x 11 mm
Vikt358 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor142
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781666975741

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Robert Perinbanayagam’s work has given us outstanding and complex texts on the self as both social construction and reflexive agent. In this masterful new work of independent essays, he writes about the primacy of talking, drawing from three critical sources: the pragmatist philosopher G. H. Mead, the work of American literary critic Kenneth Burke, and the Russian language philosopher Mikhail Bakhtin.