On Symbols and Society

Acknowledgments
Introduction by Joseph R. Gusfield
I. The Form of Social Action
1. The Nature of Human Action
2. The Human Actor: Definition of Man
II. Language as Symbolic Action
3. Symbolic Action
4. Types of Meaning: Semantic and Poetic Meaning
5. The Symbol as Formative
6. Language as Action: Terministic Screens
7. Motives as Action
III. Dramatistic Analysis
8. Dramatistic Method
9. Ways of Placement
10. Vocabularies of Motive
IV. Rhetorical Action
11. Identification
12. Terms of Rhetoric
13. Rhetorical Analysis
V. Dialectical Method
14. The Paradox of Substance
15. Irony and Dialectic
16. Perspective by Incongruity: Comic Correctives
17. The Transformation of Terms
18. Transcendence
VI. Symbols and the Social Order
19. Order and Hierarchy
20. Terms for Order
21. Sin and Redemption
22. Ideology and Myth
References in Burke Readings
Bibliography: Kenneth Burke
Index