Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xxi, 222 Seiten)
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Illustrationen, Diagramme
ISBN:
9781139025928
Series Statement:
New departures in anthropology
Content:
When people do things with words, how do we know what they are doing? Many scholars have assumed a category of things called actions: 'requests', 'proposals', 'complaints', 'excuses'. The idea is both convenient and intuitive, but as this book argues, it is a spurious concept of action. In interaction, a person's primary task is to decide how to respond, not to label what someone just did. The labeling of actions is a meta-level process, appropriate only when we wish to draw attention to others' behaviors in order to quiz, sanction, praise, blame, or otherwise hold them to account. This book develops a new account of action grounded in certain fundamental ideas about the nature of human sociality: that social conduct is naturally interpreted as purposeful; that human behavior is shaped under a tyranny of social accountability; and that language is our central resource for social action and reaction
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 29 Sep 2017)
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Basics of action -- The study of action -- The distribution of action -- The ontology of action -- Collateral effects -- Natural meaning
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, hardback ISBN 9780521895286
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, paperback ISBN 9780521719650
Language:
English
Subjects:
Ethnology
Keywords:
Handlung
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Interaktion
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Kulturtheorie
DOI:
10.1017/9781139025928
URL:
Volltext
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Author information:
Enfield, N. J. 1966-
