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Contents
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Signing the Self | 13 |
The Styling of the Self | 16 |
The Self as an Agent | 19 |
Notes | 23 |
Acts of Discourse | 27 |
Insults | 120 |
Retorts | 121 |
Commands | 123 |
Assertions | 124 |
Rebuffs | 125 |
Accounts | 126 |
Disclaimers | 127 |
Programs | 128 |
Semiosis and Transformation | 29 |
The Phonological Semiosis | 33 |
Grammatical Semiosis | 40 |
Categorical Semiosis | 47 |
Symbolic Semiosis | 55 |
Conclusion | 60 |
Notes | 61 |
Acts of Interpretation | 63 |
Interpretation and Uncertainty | 67 |
The Limits of Interpretation | 76 |
The Process of Reconstruction | 77 |
Notes | 87 |
The Dialectics of Discourse | 89 |
The Parameters of Discourse | 91 |
Discourse and Decorum | 96 |
Topics of Discourse | 102 |
Irony and Interaction | 108 |
Notes | 111 |
Forms of Discourse | 113 |
Demands and Requests | 114 |
Instructions | 117 |
Compliments | 119 |
Teasings | 131 |
Deceptions | 132 |
Scoldings | 133 |
Complaints | 135 |
Rebuttals | 136 |
Interruptions | 138 |
Notes | 142 |
Emotions in Discourse | 143 |
The Vocabulary of Emotions | 147 |
The Degrees of Emotions | 149 |
Discursive Emotions | 151 |
Conclusion | 164 |
Notes | 165 |
Drama in Discourse | 167 |
The Drama of Conversations | 171 |
The Mimesis of the Self | 178 |
The Mimesis of the Other | 183 |
Play and Display of Self | 193 |
Notes | 196 |
References | 199 |
Index | 207 |
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Page 153 - All this? ay, more: Fret till your proud heart break; Go, show your slaves how choleric you are, And make your bondmen tremble. Must I budge? Must I observe you? Must I stand and crouch Under your testy humour? By the gods, You shall digest the venom of your spleen, Though it do split you; for, from this day forth, I'll use you for my mirth, yea, for my laughter, When you are waspish.
Page 8 - A sign, or representamen, is something which stands to somebody for something in some respect or capacity. It addresses somebody, that is, creates in the mind of that person an equivalent sign, or perhaps a more developed sign. That sign which it creates I call the interpretant of the first sign.
Page 24 - The Western conception of the person as a bounded, unique, more or less integrated motivational and cognitive universe, a dynamic center of awareness, emotion, judgment, and action organized into a distinctive whole and set contrastively both against other such wholes and against its social and natural background, is, however incorrigible it may seem to us, a rather peculiar idea within the context of the world's cultures.
Page 19 - I" is the response of the organism to the attitudes of the others; the "me" is the organized set of attitudes of others which one himself assumes. The attitudes of the others constitute the organized "me," and then one reacts toward that as an "I.
Page 27 - It is the demi-cadence which closes a musical phrase in the symphony of our intellectual life. We have seen that it has just three properties: First, it is something that we are aware of; second, it appeases the irritation of doubt; and, third, it involves the establishment in our nature of a rule of action, or, say for short, a habit.
Page 55 - Man has, as it were, discovered a new method of adapting himself to his environment. Between the receptor system and the effector system, which are to be found in all animal species, we find in man a third link which we may describe as the symbolic system.
Page 21 - me,' but it is a 'me' which was the 'I' at the earlier time. If you ask, then, where directly in your own experience the 'I' comes in, the answer is that it comes in as a historical figure. It is what you were a second ago that is the 'I
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Page 5 - Being I and saying I are the same. Saying I and saying one of the two basic words are the same. Whoever speaks one of the basic words enters into the word and stands in it. * The life of a human being does not exist merely in the sphere of goal-directed verbs. It does not consist merely of activities that have something for their object. I perceive something. I feel something. I imagine something. I want something. I sense something. I think something.
Page 27 - However the doubt may originate, it stimulates the mind to an activity which may be slight or energetic, calm or turbulent. Images pass rapidly through consciousness, one incessantly melting into another, until at last, when all is over - it may...