Linguistique de l’écrit

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Meaning in action

constructions, narratives, and representations

Édité parToshio SugimanKenneth J. Gergen Wolfgang WagnerYoko Yamada

Résumé

are far from genetically ? xing what behavioral preferences they may possess. Instead, learning mechanisms offer a ? exible way of attaining locally important cultural knowledge within temporal windows of opportunity as has been convi- ingly shown by research in language and culture attainment. Similar mechanisms are likely to exist for other social capacities, such as mate preferences, for example. It is this role of our biological inheritance that social science must appreciate in order to furnish a more complete understanding of human behavior. Within the natural range of variation of capacities and armed with biologically conditioned learning mechanisms we live out lives of meaning – in which we hold some things to be real, rational, valuable or morally right, and others not. It is this world of meaning in which we ? nd love and hate, struggles for justice, power, and money, and the dramas that lend to life both its depth and passion.

Détails | Table des matières

Culture, psychotherapy, and the diasporic self as transitoric identity

a reply to social constructionist and postmodern concepts of narrative psychotherapy

Barbara ZielkeJürgen Straub

pp.49-72

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-74680-5_4
Moralities we live by

moral focusing in the context of technological change

Nicole Kronberger

pp.115-134

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-74680-5_7
The transcendental nature of norms

infants in residential nurseries and child adoption

Akiko Rakugi

pp.149-162

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-74680-5_9
Twice-told-tales

small story analysis and the process of identity formation

Michael Bamberg

pp.183-204

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-74680-5_11
Human/nature narratives and popular films

big, bad, bold, beneficent, bountiful, beautiful and bereft

Mary Gergen

pp.205-221

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-74680-5_12
Opposite and coexistent dialogues

repeated voices and the side-by-side position of self and other

Yoko Yamada

pp.223-239

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-74680-5_13

Détails de la publication

Maison d'édition: Springer

Lieu de publication: Dordrecht

Année: 2008

Pages: 354

DOI: 10.1007/978-4-431-74680-5

ISBN (hardback): 978-4-431-74679-9

ISBN (digital): 978-4-431-74680-5

Citation complète:

Sugiman Toshio, Gergen Kenneth J., Wagner Wolfgang, Yamada Yoko (éd.), 2008, Meaning in action: constructions, narratives, and representations. Dordrecht, Springer.