Goffman's work on participation marks a watershed in linguistic studies on speaker and
hearer roles in interaction, both in everyday conversations and in media discourse. Goffman …

Understanding Pragmatics takes an interdisciplinary approach to provide an accessible
introduction to linguistic pragmatics. This book discusses how the meaning of utterances can …

Face threats are generally studied as either something to be avoided or reduced in
politeness research, or as deliberate forms of aggression in impoliteness research. The …

The concept of articulation has a long history in the English language. Throughout this
history some meanings have been forgotten and others have been recently recovered and …

This paper attempts to explain the trajectory and unusual outcome of this courtroom
encounter by applying Erving Goffman's approach to interaction. It employs his notions of …

This paper raises concerns about the tenor of 21st century interaction by identifying a
tendency whereby relatively innocuous, canonically private communication is transformed …

This paper explores the (co-) construction of identities in ritual interaction, by focusing on the
choice of interactional styles.'Interactional style'describes a cluster of similar indexical …

Despite the growing prevalence of interpreter-mediated police interviews, this area remains
widely under-researched as the focus of research on legal interpreting has been the …

Goffman's face-work is a prime example of the peculiar nature of his influence on the social
sciences. Face is a concept he proposed and explored at some length in one early article …

The purpose of this chapter is that of investigating, in a preliminary manner, instances of and
reflections on politeness in a corpus as vast and partially unexplored as that of the Latin …