Language, signs, and selves
Subtitle: the dialectics of discourse
By: Robert S. Perinbanayagam.
Contributors: Perinbanayagam, R. S., 1934-
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780202363530
Subjects: Discourse analysis; Dialogue; Conversation
Description: This 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 their work, as in that of many structuralists, discourse has become depersonalized, with the linguistic form itself becoming an independent entity sealed from the world of selves, interaction, conflict, and suffering. Perinbanayagam's interest is in displaying the dialogic properties of such discourses, conceiving each element in them as pragmatic and directed. (Back Cover).
Notes: Rev. and updated ed. of: Discursive acts. c1991.

Includes bibliographical references and index.