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1 online resource (528 pages) |
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Classics in Communications |
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Classics in Communications
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Introduction to the Transaction Edition Carol Wilder; Contents; Introduction; PART ONE Symbolic Contexts of Social Experience in Freud, Simmel, and Malinowski; I. Symbolic Interaction in Freud's Work; The Importance of Symbols in Freudian Theory; Freud's Attempt to Combine Qualities and Quantities in His Description of Cathexis; Freud's Use of Rhetorical and Dramatic Imagery; Freud's Great Contribution to a Sociology of Language: Dreams and Communication; II. Georg Simmel's Search for an Autonomous Form of Sociability |
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Forms of Sociation Considered as Representative Forms of Social InteractionForms of Sociation Considered as Art and as Play; The Purest Moment of Sociability: Equality; Coquetry and Conversation as Specific Examples of Pure Forms of Sociation; Simmel's Contribution to Social Theory Considered in Terms of Communication; III. Malinowski's Theory of the Social Context of Magical Language; The Context of Situation in the Magical Language of the Tribe; Language and Social Organization; The Relevance of Malinowski's Tribal Context of Situation to Communication in Modern Society |
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PART TWO The Self and Society as Determined by Communication in James, Dewey, and MeadIV. Society as Determined by Communication: Dewey's Theory of Art as Communication; The Problem of Time in Symbolic Analysis; James' Pragmatic Approach to Religious Expression: His Views on Human Documents; Communication, Art, and Society in Dewey; Dewey's Contribution to a Social Theory of Communication; Dewey's View of the Social Function of Art; V. Communication and the Emergence of the Self in the Work of George Herbert Mead; James' Acceptance of Expressive Symbols as Social Data |
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The Emergence of the Self in CommunicationThe Self and the Other in Communication; VI. The Final Phase of the Act: Consummation; Consummation and Communication: The Aesthetic Moment in Experience; The Function of Imagery in Conduct; VII. The Problem of Form in Mead's Theory of the Significant Symbol; Mead's Theory of the Significant Symbol; Problems in the Use of Mead's Concept of Role-Taking; The "Organization of Perspectives"" and Communication as a Form of Address; PART THREE The Function of Symbols in Society: An Application of Burke's Dramatistic View of Social Relationships |
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VIII. Burke's Dramatistic View of Society Literature as Equipment for Living in SocietyThe Nature of Symbolic Action in Society; IX. Social Order Considered as a Drama of Redemption Through Victimage; Hierarchal Identification; Redemption and Victimage in Social Order; How Victimage Functions in Society; The Perfecting of Victimage in Society; PART FOUR Burke's Sociology of Language; X. The Structure and Function of the Act in the Work of Kenneth Burke; Social Action as Symbolic Action; A Dramatistic View of Human Relations; Logical, Rhetorical, and Symbolic Phases of the Act |
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XI. A Rhetoric of Motives: Burke's Sociology of Language |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Duncan, Hugh Dalziel
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Wilder, Carol N
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| ISBN |
9781351527569 |
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1351527568 |
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