Discursive Acts - 9781138522374

Name: Discursive Acts - 9781138522374
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Discursive ActsLanguage, Signs, and Selves\nAuthor(s): Robert Perinbanayagam\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138522374, 978-1138522374\nSynopsis\nLanguage, 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.\n\nThis 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 thei.