Identity's moments : the self in action and interaction / Robert Perinbanayagam.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-185) and index.

The drama and the dialectics of identity -- The relations of identity -- The scenes and agencies of identity -- Interaction and the drama of engagement (with E. Doyle McCarthy) -- The meaning of uncertainty and the uncertainty of meaning -- The coinage of the self -- The other in the game : interactional processes in Mead and Wittgenstein.

The work is an examination of the role of language in the constitution of self and in the presentation of identity. Following the path laid out by George Herbert Mead, Kenneth Burke and Mikhail Bakhtin the work presents self, identity and meaning as ongoing accomplishments between human actors who participate in what may be termed the dramas of human relations. Human agents use language as symbolic actions with which they transform themselves and others, as well as places and things, clothing and money etc into meanings with which they conduct their lives.