Date: 18-Jun-2008 From: Liesbeth Kanis <kanisbrill.nl> Subject: 'The' Fifth Modality: Roberts E-mail this message to a friend
Title: "The" Fifth Modality: On Languages that Shape our Motivations and Cultures
Series Title: International Comparative Social Studies
Published: 2008
Publisher: Brill
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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
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