What is it about?
I discuss the problems inherent in the usual motivational/intentional mentalistic approach to social action and propose a discursive alternative through which the meaning of behavior is located in discourse.
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Why is it important?
It frees the study of social action from it uncertain psychological foundations. It systematizes insights and concepts from various discourse-centered approaches, particularly ethnomethodology, and provides some justifications and foundations for such approaches.
Perspectives
This book is now more than 30 years old. Although I would do some things differently if I were writing it today, I still think the approach and analysis is correct.
Professor Jack Bilmes
University of Hawaii System
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This page is a summary of: Discourse and Behavior, January 1986, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4899-2040-9.
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