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Paperback Self-Making Man: A Day of Action, Life, and Language Book

ISBN: 1108714781

ISBN13: 9781108714785

Self-Making Man: A Day of Action, Life, and Language

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This book portrays one day in the communicative life of the owner of an auto repair-shop in Texas. He walks, looks, points, shows and explains engines, makes sense by gesture, speaks, manages, makes his life-world, and in the process reproduces social structures and himself as individual. Self-Making Man is the first comprehensive study of a communicating person; it reveals socially shared and personal practices, as well as improvisational actions...

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