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Publication year: 2008
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| Series: | International Comparative Social Studies, 17 |
| ISBN-13 (i)The ISBN (International Standard Book Number) has been changed from 10 to 13 digits on 1 January 2007: | 978 90 04 16235 8 |
| ISBN-10: | 90 04 16235 6 |
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| Cover: | Hardback |
| Number of pages: | xxiv, 196 pp. |
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| List price: | € 89.00 / US$ 129.00 |
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Table of contents
Preface
Glossary
Chapter 1: On Persuasion
Chapter 2: Reading Personhood
Chapter 3: Gedankenexperiment
Chapter 4: Individualism
Chapter 5: Mutualism
Chapter 6: Essentialism
Chapter 7: Doctrinism
Chapter 8: Another Modality
Appendix: A Formalization
Index
Readership
Readers with interests in cultures, ideologies, and discourse, as well as more generally in social theory, philosophy, and linguistics
About the author(s)
Carl W. Roberts, Ph.D. (1983) in Sociology, SUNY at Stony Brook, is Professor of Sociology and Statistics at Iowa State University. He has done much empirical research on cultural variations in language use, and has written extensively on linguistic structure, e.g., in his Text Analysis for the Social Sciences (Erlbaum, 1997)
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This is a book about how people understand each other. Like Simmel’s writings and works written by Foucault and Goffman toward the ends of their careers, this book depicts interactions as behavioral forms. Its novelty is that it grounds these forms in linguistic structure, particularly in the ubiquitous presence of modality in discourse within all mass societies. Its concluding argument is that all persons, situations, and cultures have mutual significance in accordance with four fundamental modal forms: ability (most common in the United States), necessity (most common in the socialist countries of Western Europe and Scandinavia), obligation (most common in ancient Chinese and Indic societies), and permission (most common in the Islamic world).
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