Fifth Modality : On Languages that Shape our Motivations and Cultures.
Title:
Fifth Modality : On Languages that Shape our Motivations and Cultures.
Author:
Roberts, Carl W.
ISBN:
9789047441892
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (218 pages)
Series:
International Comparative Social Studies, 17 ; v.17
International Comparative Social Studies, 17
Contents:
Contents -- Preface -- Glossary -- Chapter One On Persuasion -- Chapter Two Reading Personhood -- Chapter Three Gedankenexperiment -- Chapter Four Individualism -- Chapter Five Mutualism -- Chapter Six Essentialism -- Chapter Seven Doctrinism -- Chapter Eight Another Modality -- Appendix: A Formalization -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
Deals with how people understand each other. This book depicts interactions as behavioral forms. It grounds behavioual forms in linguistic structure, particularly in the ubiquitous presence of modality in discourse within all mass societies.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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