TY  - BOOK
AU  - Roberts,Carl W.
TI  - "The" fifth modality: on languages that shape our motivations and cultures 
T2  - Brill eBook titles 2008
SN  - 9789047441892
AV  - HM1106 .R632 2008
U1  - 306.4409 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Individu en samenleving
KW  - gtt
KW  - Sociale netwerken
KW  - Interpersonal relations
KW  - Europa (geografie)
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-186) and index; Preliminary Material; C.W. Roberts --; Chapter One. On persuasion; C.W. Roberts --; Chapter Two. Reading personhood; C.W. Roberts --; Chapter Three. Gedankenexperiment; C.W. Roberts --; Chapter Four. Individualism; C.W. Roberts --; Chapter Five. Mutualism; C.W. Roberts --; Chapter Six. Essentialism; C.W. Roberts --; Chapter Seven. Doctrinism; C.W. Roberts --; Chapter Eight. Another modality; C.W. Roberts --; Appendix: A formalization; C.W. Roberts --; Bibliography; C.W. Roberts --; Index; C.W. Roberts; Available to subscribing member institutions only
N2  - This is a book about how people understand each other. Like Simmel’s writings and works written by Foucault and Goffman toward the ends of their careers, this book depicts interactions as behavioral forms. Its novelty is that it grounds these forms in linguistic structure, particularly in the ubiquitous presence of modality in discourse within all mass societies. Its concluding argument is that all persons, situations, and cultures have mutual significance in accordance with four fundamental modal forms: ability (most common in the United States), necessity (most common in the socialist countries of Western Europe and Scandinavia), obligation (most common in ancient Chinese and Indic societies), and permission (most common in the Islamic world)
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/ej.9789004162358.I-194
ER  -