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Self-Making Man: A Day of Action, Life, and Language
Jürgen Streeck
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Description for Self-Making Man: A Day of Action, Life, and Language
hardcover. The first comprehensive study of a communicating person reveals how one inhabits and makes sense of the world with others. Series: Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives. Num Pages: 668 pages. BIC Classification: CF; GTC; JMR. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 152. .
This book portrays one day in the communicative life of the owner of an auto repair-shop in Texas. He walks, looks, points, shows and explains engines, makes sense by gesture, speaks, manages, makes his life-world, and in the process reproduces social structures and himself as individual. Self-Making Man is the first comprehensive study of a communicating person; it reveals socially shared and personal practices, as well as improvisational actions by which a person inhabits and makes sense of the world with others. After decades of discussion on embodiment, this study is the first to investigate one body in its full ... Read more
This book portrays one day in the communicative life of the owner of an auto repair-shop in Texas. He walks, looks, points, shows and explains engines, makes sense by gesture, speaks, manages, makes his life-world, and in the process reproduces social structures and himself as individual. Self-Making Man is the first comprehensive study of a communicating person; it reveals socially shared and personal practices, as well as improvisational actions by which a person inhabits and makes sense of the world with others. After decades of discussion on embodiment, this study is the first to investigate one body in its full ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
668
Condition
New
Series
Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives
Number of Pages
478
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107022942
SKU
V9781107022942
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About Jürgen Streeck
Jürgen Streeck, Professor of Communication Studies and Anthropology at the University of Texas, Austin, is known for his ground-breaking work on gesture, embodied interaction, and the bodily foundations of meaning. Among his publications are Gesturecraft: The Manu-facture of Meaning (2009), Embodied Interaction: Language and Body in the Material World (edited with C. Goodwin and C. D. LeBaron, 2011), and Intercorporeality: ... Read more
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