MATERIAL SPECIFIC AREA: ELECTRONIC RESOURCE CHARACTERISTICS
Designation and extent of file
Electronic book.
GENERAL NOTES
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Available through dawsonera.
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 172-177) and index.
REPRODUCTION NOTE
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; Preface; Mediated discourse: a discursive theory of human action; On the ontogenesis of a social practice; On the ontogenesis of a social actor: from object to agency in baby talk; Objects as mediational means: the crayon appropriates a child; The nexus of practice; Mediated discourse as a nexus of practice; References; Index;
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Language and action are intimately related. The difficult question to answer is how. Looks at how use of language is both a form of action in itself and is also indirectly related to all other forms of human action.