A Theory of Literate Action: Literate Action Volume 2
- rhetoric and composition, writing strategies, writing studies, rhetorical theory, social science
By Charles Bazerman
Copy edited by Don Donahue. Designed by Mike Palmquist.
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.
Table of Contents
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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 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
About the Author
Charles Bazerman, Professor of Education at the University of California, Santa Barbara, is the author of numerous research articles and books on the social role of writing, academic genres, and textual analysis, as well as textbooks on the teaching of writing.
Publication Information: Bazerman, Charles. (2013). A Theory of Literate Action: Literate Action Volume 2. The WAC Clearinghouse; Parlor Press. https://doi.org/10.37514/PER-B.2013.4791
Publication Date: August 17, 2013.
ISBN: 978-1-64215-053-7 (pdf) | 978-1-64215-053474 (epub) | 978-1-60235-477-7 (pbk.)
DOI: 10.37514/PER-B.2013.4791
Contact Information:
Charles Bazerman: bazerman@education.ucsb.edu
Perspectives on Writing
Series Editor: Susan H. McLeod, University of California, Santa Barbara
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