
"The" Fifth Modality
On Languages that Shape our Motivations and Cultures
Carl Roberts(Author)
Brill (Publisher)
Published on 22. August 2008
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Hardback
220 pages
978-90-04-16235-8 (ISBN)
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Description
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).
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
College/higher education
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sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 244 mm
Width: 163 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
499 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-16235-8 (9789004162358)
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Carl W. Roberts, Ph.D. (1983) in Sociology, SUNY at Stony Brook, is Professor of Sociology and Statistics at Iowa State University. He has done much empirical research on cultural variations in language use, and has written extensively on linguistic structure, e.g., in his Text Analysis for the Social Sciences (Erlbaum, 1997)
Content
Preface
Glossary
1 On Persuasion
2 Reading Personhood
3 Gedankenexperiment
4 Individualism
5 Mutualism
6 Essentialism
7 Doctrinism
8 Another Modality
Appendix: A Formalization
Index
Glossary
1 On Persuasion
2 Reading Personhood
3 Gedankenexperiment
4 Individualism
5 Mutualism
6 Essentialism
7 Doctrinism
8 Another Modality
Appendix: A Formalization
Index