Front Matter -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Symbolic Animal and the Cultural Transformation of Nature -- Chapter 2. Symbolic Selves in Society: Vygotsky on Language and Formation of the Social Mind -- Chapter 3. Active Social Symbolic Selves: Vygotskian Traditions -- Chapter 4. Active Social Symbolic Selves: The Phenomenological Sociology Tradition -- Chapter 5. Active Social Symbolic Selves: The Pragmatic Tradition within American Social Science -- Chapter 6. Social Order: Structural and Structurational Sociology -- Chapter 7. From the Interaction Order to Shared Meanings -- Chapter 8. Linguistic Orders -- Chapter 9. Utterances and Their Meanings -- Chapter 10. The World in the Text: Indexed and Created -- Chapter 11. The Writer on the Spot and on the Line -- References

The second in a two-volume set, A Theory of Literate Action draws on work from the social sciences-and in particular sociocultural psychology, phenomenological sociology, and the pragmatic tradition of social science-to "reconceive rhetoric fundamentally around the problems of written communication rather than around rhetoric's founding concerns of high stakes, agonistic, oral public persuasion" (p. 3). An expression of more than a quarter-century of reflection and scholarly inquiry, this volume represents a significant contribution to contemporary rhetorical theory.

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