"The" fifth modality [[electronic resource] ] : on languages that shape our motivations and cultures / / by Carl W. Roberts

• Autore: Roberts Carl W
• Pubblicazione: Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (218 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.4409
• Soggetto topico: Interpersonal relations
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-186) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: On persuasion -- Reading personhood -- Gedankenexperiment -- Individualism -- Mutualism -- Essentialism -- Doctrinism -- Another modality.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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).
• Titolo autorizzato: "The" fifth modality
• ISBN: 1-282-39764-8; 9786612397646; 90-474-4189-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910810803603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: International comparative social studies ; ; v. 17.