19.2616, Books: Socioling/Pragmatics/Discourse Analysis: Roberts

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Date: 18-Jun-2008
From: Liesbeth Kanis < kanis at brill.nl >
Subject: 'The' Fifth Modality: Roberts

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Title: "The" Fifth Modality: On Languages that Shape our Motivations and
Cultures 
Series Title: International Comparative Social Studies  

Publication Year: 2008 
Publisher: Brill
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Book URL: http://www.brill.nl/default.aspx?partid=18&pid=21177 

Author: Carl W. Roberts

Hardback: ISBN:  9789004162358 Pages: 210 Price: Europe EURO 89.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789004162358 Pages: 210 Price: U.S. $ 129.00

Abstract:

This is a book about how people understand each other. Like Simmel's
writings and works written by Foucault and Goffman toward the ends of their
careers, this book depicts interactions as behavioral forms. Its novelty is
that it grounds these forms in linguistic structure, particularly in the
ubiquitous presence of modality in discourse within all mass societies. Its
concluding argument is that all persons, situations, and cultures have
mutual significance in accordance with four fundamental modal forms:
ability (most common in the United States), necessity (most common in the
socialist countries of Western Europe and Scandinavia), obligation (most
common in ancient Chinese and Indic societies), and permission (most common
in the Islamic world). 

Table of contents
Preface 
Glossary 
Chapter 1: On Persuasion 
Chapter 2: Reading Personhood 
Chapter 3: Gedankenexperiment 
Chapter 4: Individualism 
Chapter 5: Mutualism 
Chapter 6: Essentialism 
Chapter 7: Doctrinism 
Chapter 8: Another Modality 
Appendix: A Formalization 
Index 

Keywords:
Modality, culture linguistics, persuasion, personhood, individualism,
mutualism, essentialism, reformism.

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Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis
                     Pragmatics
                     Sociolinguistics

Written In: English  (eng)

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