Agency and Consciousness in Discourse - Self-Other Dynamics as a Complex System

Zusatztext mention- Book News Inc./ August 2007 Informationen zum Autor Paul J. Thibault is Professor in Linguistics and Media Communication, Agder University, Kristiansand, Norway. Zusammenfassung In the past two decades there has been considerable interest in the ways in which subjects are positioned in discursive practice. This interest has entailed a focus on the role of language and discourse in the processes in and through which subjects are constituted in discourse. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface 1. Introduction 2. The Semiotic Mediation of Consciousness in Social Meaning-Making 3. Agency, Intentionality and Individuation in Infant Semiosis 4. Reflexive (Self) Consciousness, Conscience, and the Dialogical Basis of Intrapersonal Moral Consciousness 5. Dialogic Closure and the Semiotic Mediation of Consciousness in Ecosocial Networks 6. Metaphor as Semiotic Re-Organization Across Levels References

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• Authors: Paul Thibault, Paul J Thibault, Paul J. Thibault, THIBAULT PAUL J
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2004
• EAN: 9780826474261
• ISBN: 978-0-8264-7426-1
• No. of pages: 352
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc