Self-Making Man - A Day of Action, Life, and Language

Informationen zum Autor 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: Emerging Socialities in Interaction (edited with C. Meyer and J. S. Jordan, 2016). His articles have appeared in Gesture, the Journal of Pragmatics, Research on Language and Social Interaction, Annual Review of Anthropology, and the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology. He has been a Fellow at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF) at Universität Bielefeld, Germany, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany, and Carl V. Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany. Klappentext The first comprehensive study of a communicating person reveals how one inhabits and makes sense of the world with others. Zusammenfassung Self-Making Man 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 range of communicative activities. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Moving; 2. Looking; 3. Pointing; 4. Showing; 5. Making sense; 6. Speaking; 7. Getting things done; 8. Self-making.

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• Authors: J¿rgen Streeck, Jurgen Streeck, Jürgen Streeck, Jurgen (University of Texas Streeck
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.06.2017
• EAN: 9781107022942
• ISBN: 978-1-107-02294-2
• No. of pages: 478
• Series: Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives; Learning in Doing: Social, Cog; Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives; Learning in Doing: Social, Cog
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Communication science; Linguistics, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Communication Studies, Cognition and cognitive psychology