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Cambridge University Press The Concept of Action (New Departures in Anthropology)

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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.

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Brand: Cambridge University Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0521895286
Category: Books > Subjects > Reference > Words, Language & Grammar
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 12 October 2017
Listed Since: 01 March 2017

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