Language As Symbolic Action

Author : Kenneth Burke
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 531 pages
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Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780520340664

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Language As Symbolic Action by Kenneth Burke Pdf

From the Preface:The title for this collection was the title of a course in literary criticism that I gave for many years at Bennington College. And much of the material presented here was used in that course. The title should serve well to convey the gist of these various pieces. For all of them are explicitly concerned with the attempt to define and track down the implications of the term "symbolic action," and to show how the marvels of literature and language look when considered form that point of view.

Author : Kenneth Burke
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0520001923

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Language As Symbolic Action by Kenneth Burke Pdf

From the Preface:The title for this collection was the title of a course in literary criticism that I gave for many years at Bennington College. And much of the material presented here was used in that course. The title should serve well to convey the gist of these various pieces. For all of them are explicitly concerned with the attempt to define and track down the implications of the term "symbolic action," and to show how the marvels of literature and language look when considered form that point of view.

Author : Kenneth Burke
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Language as Symbolic Action by Kenneth Burke Pdf

Author : Claire Kramsch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781108835862

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Language as Symbolic Power by Claire Kramsch Pdf

Kramsch combines insights from linguistics, anthropology and sociology to show how language represents and constructs social reality.

Author : Kenneth Burke
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1974-08-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0520024834

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The Philosophy of Literary Form by Kenneth Burke Pdf

Probes the nature of linguistic or symbolic action as it relates to specific novels, plays, and poems.

Author : Victor Turner
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781501732843

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Dramas, Fields, and Metaphors by Victor Turner Pdf

In this book, Victor Turner is concerned with various kinds of social actions and how they relate to, and come to acquire meaning through, metaphors and paradigms in their actors' minds; how in certain circumstances new forms, new metaphors, new paradigms are generated. To describe and clarify these processes, he ranges widely in history and geography: from ancient society through the medieval period to modern revolutions, and over India, Africa, Europe, China, and Meso-America. Two chapters, which illustrate religious paradigms and political action, explore in detail the confrontation between Henry II and Thomas Becket and between Hidalgo, the Mexican liberator, and his former friends. Other essays deal with long-term religious processes, such as the Christian pilgrimage in Europe and the emergence of anti-caste movements in India. Finally, he directs his attention to other social phenomena such as transitional and marginal groups, hippies, and dissident religious sects, showing that in the very process of dying they give rise to new forms of social structure or revitalized versions of the old order.

Author : Kenneth Burke
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1970-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0520016106

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The Rhetoric of Religion by Kenneth Burke Pdf

"But the point of Burke's work, and the significance of his achievement, is not that he points out that religion and language affect each other, for this has been said before, but that he proceeds to demonstrate how this is so by reference to a specific symbolic context. After a discussion 'On Words and The Word,' he analysess verbal action in St. Augustine's Confessions. He then discusses the first three chapters of Genesis, and ends with a brilliant and profound 'Prologue in Heaven,' an imaginary dialogue between the Lord and Satan in which he proposes that we begin our study of human motives with complex theories of transcendence,' rather than with terminologies developed in the use of simplified laboratory equipment. . . . Burke now feels, after some forty years of search, that he has created a model of the symbolic act which breaks through the rigidities of the 'sacred-secular' dichotomy, and at the same time shows us how we get from secular and sacred realms of action over the bridge of language. . . . Religious systems are systems of action based on communication in society. They are great social dramas which are played out on earth before an ultimate audience, God. But where theology confronts the developed cosmological drama in the 'grand style,' that is, as a fully developed cosmological drama for its religious content, the 'logologer' can be further studied not directly as knowledge but as anecdotes that help reveal for us the quandaries of human governance." --Hugh Dalziel Duncan from Critical Responses to Kenneth Burke, 1924 - 1966, edited by William H. Rueckert (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1969).

Author : Sheila McNamee,Kenneth J. Gergen
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780761910947

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Relational Responsibility by Sheila McNamee,Kenneth J. Gergen Pdf

Relational Responsibility replaces traditional ideas on individual responsibility by giving centre stage to the relational process thereby replacing alienation with meaningful dialogue.

Author : Kenneth Burke
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1989-07-15
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0226080781

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On Symbols and Society by Kenneth Burke Pdf

Kenneth Burke's innovative use of dramatism and dialectical method have made him a powerful critical force in an extraordinary variety of disciplines—education, philosophy, history, psychology, religion, and others. While most widely acclaimed as a literary critic, Burke has elaborated a perspective toward the study of behavior and society that holds immense significance and rich insights for sociologists. This original anthology brings together for the first time Burke's key writings on symbols and social relations to offer social scientists access to Burke's thought. In his superb introductory essay, Joseph R. Gusfield traces the development of Burke's approach to human action and its relationship to other similar sources of theory and ideas in sociology; he discusses both Burke's influence on sociologists and the limits of his perspective. Burke regards literature as a form of human behavior—and human behavior as embedded in language. His lifework represents a profound attempt to understand the implications for human behavior based on the fact that humans are "symbol-using animals." As this volume demonstrates, the work that Burke produced from the 1930s through the 1960s stands as both precursor and contemporary key to recent intellectual movements such as structuralism, symbolic anthropology, phenomenological and interpretive sociology, critical theory, and the renaissance of symbolic interaction.

Author : KENNETH. BURKE
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1033018562

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GRAMMAR OF MOTIVES by KENNETH. BURKE Pdf

Author : Murray Edelman
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781483269900

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Politics as Symbolic Action by Murray Edelman Pdf

Politics as Symbolic Action: Mass Arousal and Quiescence deals with the dynamics of development of political threats related to political behavior. The book discusses the conditions under which the dynamics related to political behavior are the prior causes of political arousal, violence, and quiescence. The text examines the influence of governmental activity on people's beliefs and perceptions—how non-empirical cognitions become the resistant basis of change. The text also examines how the individual phenomenon and the group phenomenon become linked through symbol formation and myths. The book discusses emotion as a catalyst of political ritual and political violence as inferred from Theodore Sarbin's role theory. The use of metaphors, language forms, and mass tensions can all be social-psychological and political processes that can lead to political arousal or quiescence. The book also explains major violent disturbances as having patterns reflective of organization, disorganization, or by leadership example; the book notes the popular notion that the organization or the leader's direction starts or worsens the violence as very simplistic. The book then proposes that political perceptions and beliefs are changeable and that phenomenological perceptions of specific groups of people can identify which political behavior are systematic. The text is suitable for political analysts, political scientists, sociologists, and educators involved in group psychology and analyses.

Author : Victor Turner
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781501717192

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Revelation and Divination in Ndembu Ritual by Victor Turner Pdf

Drawing on two and a half years of field work, Victor Turner offers two thorough ethnographic studies of Ndembu revelatory ritual and divinatory techniques, with running commentaries on symbolism by a variety of Ndembu informants. Although previously published, these essays have not been readily available since their appearance more than a dozen years ago. Striking a personal note in a new introductory chapter, Professor Turner acknowledges his indebtedness to Ndembu ritualists for alerting him to the theoretical relevance of symbolic action in understanding human societies. He believes that ritual symbols, like botanists' stains, enable us to detect and trace the movement of social processes and relationships that often lie below the level of direct observation.

Author : Kenneth Burke
Publisher : Parlor Press LLC
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781932559347

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Essays Toward a Symbolic of Motives, 1950-1955 by Kenneth Burke Pdf

This volume contains the work Burke planned to include in the third book in his Motivorum trilogy. Following Rueckert's Introduction, Burke lays out his approach in essays that theorize and illustrate the method, which he considered essential for understanding language as symbolic action and human relations generally.

Author : William Golding
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780571290581

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Lord of the Flies by William Golding Pdf

A plane crashes on a desert island and the only survivors, a group of schoolboys, assemble on the beach and wait to be rescued. By day they inhabit a land of bright fantastic birds and dark blue seas, but at night their dreams are haunted by the image of a terrifying beast. As the boys' delicate sense of order fades, so their childish dreams are transformed into something more primitive, and their behaviour starts to take on a murderous, savage significance. First published in 1954, Lord of the Flies is one of the most celebrated and widely read of modern classics. Now fully revised and updated, this educational edition includes chapter summaries, comprehension questions, discussion points, classroom activities, a biographical profile of Golding, historical context relevant to the novel and an essay on Lord of the Flies by William Golding entitled 'Fable'. Aimed at Key Stage 3 and 4 students, it also includes a section on literary theory for advanced or A-level students. The educational edition encourages original and independent thinking while guiding the student through the text - ideal for use in the classroom and at home.

Author : Greig E. Henderson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Criticism
ISBN : 0082031037

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Kenneth Burke by Greig E. Henderson Pdf