Self-making man a day of action, life, and language

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-Makin...

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Main Author: Streeck, Jürgen
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2017
Series:Learning in doing: social, cognitive and computational perspectives
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