The games that human societies devised over the centuries can be considered one of the most comprehensive and fertile symbolic systems ever created by human ingenuity
The work conceives individuals as being engaged in ongoing dramas in which they are both actors and spectators. It is a contribution to a social psychology that emphasizes a processual approach to the construction of the self and identity.
Language, Signs and Selves applies conversational analysis to the discourse of everyday life and its roles in social behavior
Drawing from the works of George Herbert Mead, Kenneth Burke, and Mikhail Bakhtin, this work argues that everyday interactions are inescapably dramas, conducted through the use of dialogues in order to promote mutual understanding.
This book uses ideas from Mead, Burke, and Bakhtin to analyze how individuals interact through communication and applies Burke's "grammar of motives" to various social phenomena.