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Forms of Talk

Forms of Talk

Goffman, Erving

Paperback

Series: Conduct and Communication

PhilosophyGeneral ReferenceLinguistics

ISBN10: 081221112X
ISBN13: 9780812211122
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: Mar 1 1981
Pages: 344
Weight: 1.25
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.80 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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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