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New Perspectives on Goffman in Language and Interaction Body, Participation and the Self
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 together a crossdisciplinary group of scholars, the book is organized around these themes, with sections on self and identity, participation, and bodily practices in social interaction. Each chapter comprises three perspectives— look back at Goffman’s original texts, their correlation in contemporary empirical research in conversation analysis, and a discussion of conceptual implications in relevant fields such as interactional sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, critical sociolinguistics, and related disciplines. Taken as a whole, the book not only offers a comprehensive critical overview of Goffman’s legacy in empirical work in conversation analysis and the social sciences but also the conceptual grounding for new studies to investigate his continuing role in contemporary scholarship.
This innovative collection will be of interest to students and scholars in sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, and critical discourse analysis as well as sub-disciplines of sociology and psychology.
Chapters 8, 10 and 13 of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
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.
