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Publication date:
01 October 2012Length of book:
206 pagesPublisher
Lexington BooksISBN-13: 9780739172414
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.
…In his latest book, Identity’s Moments: The Self in Action and Interaction, he outdoes not only himself, but other renowned interactionists, who earlier wrote on the same or similar topics, such as Nelson Foote, Anselm Strauss, and Gregory Stone, producing the best book of his long, productive career. In my opinion, this is a must buy book—one that you will want to bend over the page corners, underline words and sentences, and scribble notes to yourself in the margins…