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... Toward explaining human culture: A critical review of the findings of worldwide cross-cultura... more ... Toward explaining human culture: A critical review of the findings of worldwide cross-cultural research. Post a Comment. CONTRIBUTORS: ... Suggestions? Send them to feedback@getCITED. org. Copyright © 2000-2006 getCITED Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Duranti's voice, which masterfully threads together all these seminal contributions.... more Duranti's voice, which masterfully threads together all these seminal contributions. The journey ends with the discussion of a suitable unit of analysis for these types of studies (chapter 9). The author finds in Vygotskian psychology and Goffman's work rich humus in which to plant ...

Social Psychology Quarterly, Jun 1, 2004

An interactional model of communication can be based on Erving Goffman's concept of the "interact... more An interactional model of communication can be based on Erving Goffman's concept of the "interaction order" and the conversation analytic focus on meaning. Three sets of related ideas provide the intellectual foundations for this approach: actions are designed for recipients; talk is multi-functional; and self presentation is semiotic. These assumptions lead to a theoretical perspective in which it is understood that social actions are designed to make sense to those who participate in them. An example of discourse, called a perspective display sequence, consists of a query, the recipient's response, and the asker's subsequent report. From the early 1950s to the early 1980s, the work of Erving Goffman explicated that role of a third order in social life, neither institutional nor individual, which he named "the interaction order." Goffman sought to describe how the interactional demands of situations are the primary source of structure for the social self. For A. Rawls, self and meaning are the parallel accomplishments of the interaction order. Rawls' summary of a theory of the interaction order emphasizes self presentation, the constraints the order places on social structure, involvement obligations, and morality. Scholars can study meaning interaction by studying how second turns follow first turns, and third turns follow seconds. The meaning of a turn must be interpreted for the next turn to follow successfully. (Contains 4 notes and 36 references.) (RS)

Symbolic Interaction, 1994

This article is an analysis of a single conversational episode. A disagreement about the signific... more This article is an analysis of a single conversational episode. A disagreement about the significance of a shared event between two participants in a conversation leads to what Goffman calls a character contest. It is resolved by three others present to achieve a new working consensus. The analysis is about character contests and examines face threat, accounts, and working consensus as constituents of the interaction order which operates to maintain face and self presentation. Gender and role are part of the institutional context of this dispute. They provide ideological resources which contribute first to the conflict and later to a new working consensus. The analysis explores how the interactional and institutional orders are intertwined in informal talk.

Language in Society, 1993

Journal of Sociolinguistics, 2006

This is a book I wish I had read in graduate school. It is exciting, interesting, and highly read... more This is a book I wish I had read in graduate school. It is exciting, interesting, and highly readable. In an advanced undergraduate, or a graduate seminar, it would provide wide opportunities for discussion. It covers far more intellectual territory than most sociolinguistic or discourse analysis texts and it ties micro and macro topics together in an intellectually satisfying fashion. It shows the influences of not only

Journal of Sociolinguistics, 2006

Discourse, the Body, and Identity is a collection of papers, most of which were presented at the ... more Discourse, the Body, and Identity is a collection of papers, most of which were presented at the fourth Cardiff Roundtable in Language and Communication, entitled 'Discourses of the Body' held in June 1999, at the University of Wales. This is not just a volume of proceedings, and all 12 chapters, including the last two, added after the meeting, have been 'significantly reworked' for the published edition. There are three sections: 'The body as an interactional resource'; 'Ideological representations of the body'; and 'The body, pathology and constructions of selfhood'; preceded by a useful and interesting Introduction. The Introduction cites the obvious influences of Goffman, Foucault, and to a lesser extent, Giddens, and Baudrillard, as theorists whose formulations of embodiment have introduced the set of basic concerns that play out in various ways in the chapters that follow. Goffman's concepts of face work, body work, and especially stigma, as the 'divergence between individuals' ''virtual social identity'' and their ''actual social identity'' ' (p. 2) recur frequently in these various investigations. Foucault's notions of discourse and control operate throughout the text in a more subterranean fashion, only referred to occasionally, but clearly influential for many of the investigators. Giddens' concerns with the formulation of identity in late modernity and Baudrillard's interest in narcissism also have clear relevance to much of the work here, though again getting little overt reference. Several themes recur in the chapters. The first is an approach that treats 'theory and data analysis as necessarily mutually informing' (p. 7). Second is the importance of multiple approaches examining bodies in a wide variety of settings, including archaeological fieldwork (Chapter 2), art classes (Chapter 3), the ageing body (Chapters 5 and 7), the sauna (Chapter 9), and bodies and illness (Chapters 10, 11, and 12). The third emphasizes the importance of contextual differences, such as national cultures (Chapter 9), gender (Chapters 6 and 7), and disability (Chapters 10, 11, and 12). The fourth is the body as 'an unfinished biological and sociological phenomenon' (p. 8) in which processes and stages, such as adolescence, ageing, weight gain and loss, and surgical alteration, are all crucial concerns. Finally, most of the authors are sensitive to how bodies 'have tangible and practical effects on everyday lives in the form of particular outcomes' (p. 9).

Contemporary Sociology, 1986

Research on Language & Social Interaction, 1995

... Toward explaining human culture: A critical review of the findings of worldwide cross-cultura... more ... Toward explaining human culture: A critical review of the findings of worldwide cross-cultural research. Post a Comment. CONTRIBUTORS: ... Suggestions? Send them to feedback@getCITED. org. Copyright © 2000-2006 getCITED Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Duranti's voice, which masterfully threads together all these seminal contributions.... more Duranti's voice, which masterfully threads together all these seminal contributions. The journey ends with the discussion of a suitable unit of analysis for these types of studies (chapter 9). The author finds in Vygotskian psychology and Goffman's work rich humus in which to plant ...

Social Psychology Quarterly, Jun 1, 2004

An interactional model of communication can be based on Erving Goffman's concept of the "interact... more An interactional model of communication can be based on Erving Goffman's concept of the "interaction order" and the conversation analytic focus on meaning. Three sets of related ideas provide the intellectual foundations for this approach: actions are designed for recipients; talk is multi-functional; and self presentation is semiotic. These assumptions lead to a theoretical perspective in which it is understood that social actions are designed to make sense to those who participate in them. An example of discourse, called a perspective display sequence, consists of a query, the recipient's response, and the asker's subsequent report. From the early 1950s to the early 1980s, the work of Erving Goffman explicated that role of a third order in social life, neither institutional nor individual, which he named "the interaction order." Goffman sought to describe how the interactional demands of situations are the primary source of structure for the social self. For A. Rawls, self and meaning are the parallel accomplishments of the interaction order. Rawls' summary of a theory of the interaction order emphasizes self presentation, the constraints the order places on social structure, involvement obligations, and morality. Scholars can study meaning interaction by studying how second turns follow first turns, and third turns follow seconds. The meaning of a turn must be interpreted for the next turn to follow successfully. (Contains 4 notes and 36 references.) (RS)

Symbolic Interaction, 1994

This article is an analysis of a single conversational episode. A disagreement about the signific... more This article is an analysis of a single conversational episode. A disagreement about the significance of a shared event between two participants in a conversation leads to what Goffman calls a character contest. It is resolved by three others present to achieve a new working consensus. The analysis is about character contests and examines face threat, accounts, and working consensus as constituents of the interaction order which operates to maintain face and self presentation. Gender and role are part of the institutional context of this dispute. They provide ideological resources which contribute first to the conflict and later to a new working consensus. The analysis explores how the interactional and institutional orders are intertwined in informal talk.

Language in Society, 1993

Journal of Sociolinguistics, 2006

This is a book I wish I had read in graduate school. It is exciting, interesting, and highly read... more This is a book I wish I had read in graduate school. It is exciting, interesting, and highly readable. In an advanced undergraduate, or a graduate seminar, it would provide wide opportunities for discussion. It covers far more intellectual territory than most sociolinguistic or discourse analysis texts and it ties micro and macro topics together in an intellectually satisfying fashion. It shows the influences of not only

Journal of Sociolinguistics, 2006

Discourse, the Body, and Identity is a collection of papers, most of which were presented at the ... more Discourse, the Body, and Identity is a collection of papers, most of which were presented at the fourth Cardiff Roundtable in Language and Communication, entitled 'Discourses of the Body' held in June 1999, at the University of Wales. This is not just a volume of proceedings, and all 12 chapters, including the last two, added after the meeting, have been 'significantly reworked' for the published edition. There are three sections: 'The body as an interactional resource'; 'Ideological representations of the body'; and 'The body, pathology and constructions of selfhood'; preceded by a useful and interesting Introduction. The Introduction cites the obvious influences of Goffman, Foucault, and to a lesser extent, Giddens, and Baudrillard, as theorists whose formulations of embodiment have introduced the set of basic concerns that play out in various ways in the chapters that follow. Goffman's concepts of face work, body work, and especially stigma, as the 'divergence between individuals' ''virtual social identity'' and their ''actual social identity'' ' (p. 2) recur frequently in these various investigations. Foucault's notions of discourse and control operate throughout the text in a more subterranean fashion, only referred to occasionally, but clearly influential for many of the investigators. Giddens' concerns with the formulation of identity in late modernity and Baudrillard's interest in narcissism also have clear relevance to much of the work here, though again getting little overt reference. Several themes recur in the chapters. The first is an approach that treats 'theory and data analysis as necessarily mutually informing' (p. 7). Second is the importance of multiple approaches examining bodies in a wide variety of settings, including archaeological fieldwork (Chapter 2), art classes (Chapter 3), the ageing body (Chapters 5 and 7), the sauna (Chapter 9), and bodies and illness (Chapters 10, 11, and 12). The third emphasizes the importance of contextual differences, such as national cultures (Chapter 9), gender (Chapters 6 and 7), and disability (Chapters 10, 11, and 12). The fourth is the body as 'an unfinished biological and sociological phenomenon' (p. 8) in which processes and stages, such as adolescence, ageing, weight gain and loss, and surgical alteration, are all crucial concerns. Finally, most of the authors are sensitive to how bodies 'have tangible and practical effects on everyday lives in the form of particular outcomes' (p. 9).

Contemporary Sociology, 1986

Research on Language & Social Interaction, 1995