International Comparative Social Studies: The Fifth Modality : On Languages That Shape Our Motivations and Cultures 17 ebook TXT, EPUB
9789004162358 9004162356 "This is a book written about how people understand each other. Like Simmel's writings and works written by Foucault and Goffman towards the ends of their careers, this book depicts interactions as behavioral forms. Its novelty is that it grounds these forms 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)."--BOOK JACKET., This book introduces a theoretical perspective for distinguishing all mass societies' persons, situations, and cultures in accordance with four modalities (e.g., ability for most U.S. citizens, necessity for most Scandinavians, obligation for most Japanese, and permission for most Arabs), 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)."
9789004162358 9004162356 "This is a book written about how people understand each other. Like Simmel's writings and works written by Foucault and Goffman towards the ends of their careers, this book depicts interactions as behavioral forms. Its novelty is that it grounds these forms 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)."--BOOK JACKET., This book introduces a theoretical perspective for distinguishing all mass societies' persons, situations, and cultures in accordance with four modalities (e.g., ability for most U.S. citizens, necessity for most Scandinavians, obligation for most Japanese, and permission for most Arabs), 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)."