Full Description
The book examines the interactional processes between individuals using ideas from George Herbert Mead, Kenneth Burke, and Mikhail Bakhtin. It focuses on how people communicate and interact, following a "grammar of motives" proposed by Burke. This grammar consists of six elements: act, agent, scene, agency, attitude, and purpose, which are present in all human conduct and relations. Robert Perinbanayagam applies this grammar to various social phenomena, such as talking, identity, religion, ritual, suicide, games, astrological consultations, and inequality.
Contents
Chapter1: Talking
Chapter 2: The Grammar of Identity
Chapter 3: Religion as Narrative and Drama
Chapter 4: The Narrated Self: The Talk of Astrology
Chapter 5: The Dramas of Suicide: Detailing Durkheim
Chapter 6: The Drama and Rhetoric of Forms in Games
Chapter 7: Identity: Relations, Habitats, and Artifacts
