A Theory of Literate Action: Literate Action Volume 2

Abstract

Title screen viewed on May 27, 2014. Companion volume is A rhetoric of literate action: literate action volume 1. "The second in a two-volume set, A Theory of Literate Action draws on work from the social sciences--and in particular sociocultural psychology, phenomenological sociology, and the pragmatic tradition of social science--to "reconceive rhetoric fundamentally around the problems of written communication rather than around rhetoric's founding concerns of high stakes, agonistic, oral public persuasion" (p. 3). An expression of more than a quarter-century of reflection and scholarly inquiry, this volume represents a significant contribution to contemporary rhetorical theory."--Open Textbook Library Chapter 1. The Symbolic Animal and the Cultural Transformation of Nature -- Chapter 2. Symbolic Selves in Society: Vygotsky on Language and Formation of the Social Mind -- Chapter 3. Active Social Symbolic Selves: Vygotskian Traditions -- Chapter 4. Active Social Symbolic Selves: The Phenomenological Sociology Tradition -- Chapter 5. Active Social Symbolic Selves: The Pragmatic Tradition within American Social Science -- Chapter 6. Social Order: Structural and Structurational Sociology -- Chapter 7. From the Interaction Order to Shared Meanings -- Chapter 8. Linguistic Orders -- Chapter 9. Utterances and Their Meanings -- Chapter 10. The World in the Text: Indexed and Created -- Chapter 11. The Writer on the Spot and on the Line.