Forms of Talk

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University of Pennsylvania Press, 1981 - 335 pages

Forms of Talk extends Erving Goffman's interactional analyses of face-to-face communication to ordinary conversations and vebal exchanges. In this, his most sociolinguistic work, Goffman relates to certain forms of talk some of the issues that concerned him in his work on frame analysis. This book brings together five of Goffman's essays: "Replies and Responses," "Response Cries," "Footing," "The Lecture," and "Radio Talk."

Of lasting value in Goffman's work is his insistence that behavior--verbal or nonverbal--be examined along with the context of that behavior. In all of these classic essays, there is a "topic" at hand for discussion and analysis. In addition, as those familiar with Goffman's work have come to expect, there is the wider context in which the topic can be viewed and related to other topics--a characteristic move of Goffman's that has made his work so necessary for students of interaction in many disciplines.

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CONTENTS
1
Replies and Responses
61
Response Cries
78
Copyright

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Forms of Talk
Erving Goffman
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About the author (1981)

Erving Goffman, an American sociologist, received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. He is known for his distinctive method of research and writing. He was concerned with defining and uncovering the rules that govern social behavior down to the minutest details. He contributed to interactionist theory by developing what he called the "dramaturgical approach," according to which behavior is seen as a series of mini-dramas. Goffman studied social interaction by observing it himself---no questionnaires, no research assistants, no experiments. The title of his first book, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (1959), became one of the themes of all of his subsequent research. He also observed and wrote about the social environment in which people live, as in his Total Institutions. He taught his version of sociology at the University of Pennsylvania; he died in 1983, the year in which he served as president of the American Sociological Association.

Bibliographic information

TitleForms of Talk
Conduct and communication series
Publications in conduct and communication, University of Pennsylvania
University of Pennsylvania publications in conduct and communication, ISSN 0556-2678
AuthorErving Goffman
Edition2, reprint
PublisherUniversity of Pennsylvania Press, 1981
Original fromUniversity of Minnesota
Digitized2 Feb 2010
ISBN0812277902, 9780812277906
Length335 pages
  
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