G. H. Mead's concept of rationality: a study of the use of symbols and other implements

CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully selected book-length publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It approaches the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches, theoretical and empirical, supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of linguists, language teachers of all interests, sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, historians etc. to the development of the sociology of language. Contents Abbreviations Introduction Foreword 1. Rationality as an Anthropological Problem 2. Mead's Approach to the Problem of Rationality 3. Conditions of Rationality 4. Rationality as Man's Vocation Appendix A. Mead's Social, Functional Concept of Consciousness Bibliography Index of Names By W. Kang. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. [201]-216.