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Situating Selves: The Communication of Social Identities in American Scenes (S U N Y Series in Human Communication Processes) (SUNY series, Human Communication Processes) by Carbaugh, Donal A. is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Situating Selves: The Communication of Social Identities in American Scenes (S U N Y Series in Human Communication Processes) (SUNY series, Human Communication Processes) about?

Provides a communication theory of identity. Shows how listening to communication in cultural scenes can help reveal how deeply identity is situated in various communicative practices.Theories of identity have been built largely upon biological, psychological, sociological, and anthropological grounds. Missing from each of these, yet of potential relevance to them all, is a community theory of identity such as the one developed here. Situating Selves presents studies of five American scenes, focusing on the ways social identities are communicatively crafted. Based on 15 years of fieldwork, the book presents fine-grained analyses of the playful self during sporting events (with special attention given to crowd activities at college basketball games), the working self in a television company, the marital self in weddings and marriages, the gendered self in television “talk shows,” and conflicted selves during a community's hotly contested land-use controversy.Carbaugh shows how listening to communication in cultural scenes like these can help reveal how deeply identity is situated in various communicative practices. These include a ritual of play, symbolic allusions to different clas

Author

Carbaugh, Donal A.

Publisher

Albany, N.y. : State University Of New York Press, C1996.

Published

1996

Language

EN

ISBN

9780585042756

Subjects

Language Learning, Sociology, Language