A theory of literate action. Volume 2 : literate action / Charles Bazerman ; designer, Mike Palmquist.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bazerman, Charles, author.

Contributor:

Palmquist, Mike, book designer.

Series:

Perspectives on writing.

Perspectives on Writing

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rhetoric.

Written communication.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (227 p.)

Place of Publication:

Fort Collins, Colorado ; Anderson, South Carolina : The WAC Clearinghouse : Parlor Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The second in a two-volume set, A Theory of Literate Action draws on work from the social sciences—and in particular sociocultural psychology, phenomenological sociology, and the pragmatic tradition of social science—to "reconceive rhetoric fundamentally around the problems of written communication rather than around rhetoric's founding concerns of high stakes, agonistic, oral public persuasion" (p. 3). An expression of more than a quarter-century of reflection and scholarly inquiry, this volume represents a significant contribution to contemporary rhetorical theory.

Contents:

Series page; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1 The Symbolic Animal and the Cultural Transformation of Nature; Writing as Learned Activity; Activity, Work, and Transformation of Consciousness; Biological and Cultural Evolution; The Transformed and Extended Here and Now; Non-Symbolic and Symbolic Cognition; Language as Situated, Embodied Utterance; Language, Literacy, and Cognitive Development; Chapter 2 Symbolic Selves in Society: Vygotsky on Language and Formation of the Social Mind; Linguistic Structure and Literary Affect: Vygotsky's Catharsis

Goals, Obstacles, and Empowerment: Vygotsky's Adler Cognitive Tools; Second Order Symbol Systems and Consciousness Development; Interaction and Self-Regulation: Influencing Others and Influencing the Self; Places of Play, Self-Articulation, and Development ; Chapter 3 Active Social Symbolic Selves: Vygotskian Traditions; Activity, Object, Affect, and Social System: Leont'ev; Complex Activity Systems: Engeström ; Written Genres in Activity Systems ; Reflectivity in Individual and Group Writing Activity; Meaning, Consciousness, and Activity: Luria

Chapter 4 Active Social Symbolic Selves: The Phenomenological Sociology TraditionSchutz, the Problems of Economic Behavior, and a Unified Social Science; Schutz's Typification; The Typified Internal and External, and the Falling Away of the Untypifiable; Relevance in Consciousness and Externalized Mediations; The Natural Attitude and the Pull of Typified Consciousness; Critiques of Social Construction and Ways Out; Typification, Novelty, and Particularized Meanings; Typification and Particularity: Appreciating the Music of Life

Schutz, Berger, and Luckman and the Social Production of the EverydayChapter 5 Active Social Symbolic Selves: The Pragmatic Tradition within American Social Science; Philosophic Pragmatism; Pragmatism as a Perspective for Social Understanding and Action; The Differences and Commonalities of Early Pragmatisms; Peirce's Semiotics with Interpretation ; James's Psychology of Experience; Dewey's Thinking about Problems ; Dewey's Learning through Active Experience; The Problem of Living with Others: Mead; Mead in Relation to Other Traditions; Mead, Chicago Sociology, and Symbolic Interactionism

Legal Institutions and Legal Practice as Experiment: HolmesPragmatic Influences on Sapir and Linguistic Anthropology; Sullivan's Pragmatic Interpersonal Psychiatry ; Language and Writing as Interpersonal and Self-Forming; Chapter 6 Social Order: Structural and Structurational Sociology; Merton's Social Structure through Individual Choice-Making; The Mechanisms of Choice Making within Opportunity Structures; Terms for an Agentive Structural Sociology; Merton's Relation to Structurationist Accounts; The Relevance of Meso-Phenomena and Theories of the Middle Range for Rhetoric and Writing

Chapter 7 From the Interaction Order to Shared Meanings

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781602354791

1602354790