TY  - CHAP
AB  - Purpose – People do not just interact, with each other; rather, they engage with each other using the visual and verbal instrumentations of communication at their disposal, constructing meaningful and intelligible conversations with differing degrees of precision of intention and clarity of expression. In doing this, they employ the “fundamental features of language,” described in various semiotic and structuralist theories.Methodology – Here, we synthesize and integrate the key aspects of these language theories in an attempt to apply them to everyday conversations. The language features in question are routinely put into play by human agents to convey attitudes, emotions, opinions, and information and to achieve an engagement with the other.Findings – Human relations, expansive in their range and intricate in their forms, demand complex instrumentations with which to conduct them. These instrumentations are essential features of the linguistic socialization of human agents, integral to both memory and habits of speech.
VL  - 39
SN  - 978-1-78190-057-4, 978-1-78190-056-7/0163-2396
DO  - 10.1108/S0163-2396(2012)0000039009
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/S0163-2396(2012)0000039009
AU  - Perinbanayagam Robert S.
AU  - Doyle McCarthy E.
ED  - Norman K. Denzin
PY  - 2012
Y1  - 2012/01/01
TI  - Interactions and the Drama of Engagement
T2  - Studies in Symbolic Interaction
T3  - Studies in Symbolic Interaction
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 191
EP  - 224
Y2  - 2024/04/23
ER  -