Lexington Books
Pages: 152
Trim: 6¼ x 9⅜
978-1-66693-137-2 • Hardback • March 2023 • $90.00 • (£69.00)
978-1-66693-138-9 • eBook • March 2023 • $45.00 • (£35.00)
Robert Perinbanayagam is professor of sociology (emeritus) at Hunter College, City University of New York.
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Understanding the Other
Chapter 2. Dialogues in Dramas
Chapter 3. Dramas, Dances, and Games: Enacted Metaphors
Chapter 4. Mongering Motives
Chapter 5. Dialogic Reflexivity and the Cultured Self
Chapter 6. Emotional Resonance
Chapter 7. Emotional Effervescence
Chapter 8. Acts of Violence: Addresses and Rejoinders
References
About the Author
"Perinbanayagam’s work has given us unforgettable accounts of the self as both sign and signifier. In this new work the author expands this distinct insight, combining three vital bodies of work: the pragmatism of Charles Sanders Peirce, the dialogism of Mikhail Bakhtin, and the dramatism of Kenneth Burke, creating a tool for interactionists to analyze language as a social tool employed by social actors. This is a bold and creative undertaking."
— E. Doyle McCarthy, professor emerita of sociology and American studies, Fordham University
"This book is a summary of Perinbanayagam’ s creative thinking. His theory shows how the language game of sociology manifests itself in meaning structures, and his version may be the most important of all the interpretive approaches."
— Norbert Wiley, University of Illinois