1st Edition

New Perspectives on Goffman in Language and Interaction Body, Participation and the Self

Edited By Lorenza Mondada, Anssi Peräkylä Copyright 2023
342 Pages 124 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

342 Pages 124 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

342 Pages 124 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This collection highlights new perspectives on the work of Erving Goffman, revisiting his place in contemporary social theory and interactional linguistics research and its impact in surfacing new insights in conversation analysis and our understanding of Goffman’s legacy. The volume outlines the theoretical foundations of Goffman’s research across linguistics and the social sciences. Bringing... Read more

List of Contributors

1. Body, participation, self: New perspectives on Goffman and social interaction
Lorenza Mondada and Anssi Peräkylä

Part I — DISCUSSING GOFFMAN’S CONCEPTUAL INSIGHTS FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF CONVERSATION ANALYSIS AND ETHNOMETHODOLOGY

2. Joint enterprises, theoretical differences and personal sympathies: Go□man’s intellectual relationship with Harold Garfinkel and ethnomethodology
Christian Mayer

3. Doing ruling: Goffman, ethnomethodology, and conversation analysis
Douglas W. Maynard and Jason Turowetz

4. Goffman, face, and the interaction order
John Heritage and Steven Clayman 

5. Following Goffman: Between methodology and stylistics
David Inglis

Part II  — AFTER GOFFMAN: STUDIES ON  BODY, PARTICIPATION AND THE SELF

6.  Embodied participation in social encounters
Charles Goodwin and Marjorie Harness Goodwin 

7. Strain grunts and the organization of participation
Leelo Keevallik

8. Embodied scepticism: Facial expression and response relevance
Rebecca Clift

9. Participation within multiparty conversation: Responses to indirect complaints about a co-present participant
Ray Wilkinson, Julie Bouchard, Veronica Gonzalez Temer, Antti Kamunen, Julia Katila, Carla Cristina Munhoz Xavier and Anca Sterie

10. Bad behaviors, spoiled identities: Face in personality disorders
Anssi Peräkylä

11. Mobile body arrangements in public space: Revisiting “withs” as local accomplishments
Lorenza Mondada

12. Confidence and competition: Impression management, markets and institutional interaction
Christian Heath and Paul Luff

13. The social organization of (in-)attention
Jörg R. Bergmann and Anssi Peräkylä

Appendix: transcription conventions

Index

Biography

Lorenza Mondada is Professor of General and French Linguistics at the University of Basel, Switzerland.

Anssi Peräkylä is Academy Professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences / Sociology, at the University of Helsinki, Finland.