New Perspectives on Goffman in Language and Interaction

✍ Scribed by Lorenza Mondada (editor), Anssi Peräkylä (editor)

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2023
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 343
• Series: Routledge Studies in Sociolinguistics
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
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 Goffman and Garfinkel: Joint enterprises, theoretical differences and personal sympathies • Christian Meyer
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 E. 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 behaviours, 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

✦ Subjects

Erving Goffman; ethnomethodology; conversation analysis; social interaction; interactional linguistics; linguistic anthropology