Erving Goffman Quote
As a linguist suggests: There are messages primarily serving to establish, to prolong, or to discontinue communication, to check whether the channel works ( Hello, do you hear me?), to attract the attention of the interlocutor or to confirm his continued attention ( Are you listening? or in Shakespearean diction, Lend me your ears!— and on the other end of the wire Um-hum!).
Erving Goffman
As a linguist suggests: There are messages primarily serving to establish, to prolong, or to discontinue communication, to check whether the channel works ( Hello, do you hear me?), to attract the attention of the interlocutor or to confirm his continued attention ( Are you listening? or in Shakespearean diction, Lend me your ears!— and on the other end of the wire Um-hum!).
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About Erving Goffman
Erving Goffman (11 June 1922 – 19 November 1982) was a Canadian-born American sociologist, social psychologist, and writer, considered by some "the most influential American sociologist of the twentieth century".
In 2007, The Times Higher Education Guide listed him as the sixth most-cited author of books in the humanities and social sciences.
Goffman was the 73rd president of the American Sociological Association. His best-known contribution to social theory is his study of symbolic interaction. This took the form of dramaturgical analysis, beginning with his 1956 book The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life. Goffman's other major works include Asylums (1961), Stigma (1963), Interaction Ritual (1967), Frame Analysis (1974), and Forms of Talk (1981). His major areas of study included the sociology of everyday life, social interaction, the social construction of self, social organization (framing) of experience, and particular elements of social life such as total institutions and stigmas.
In 2007, The Times Higher Education Guide listed him as the sixth most-cited author of books in the humanities and social sciences.
Goffman was the 73rd president of the American Sociological Association. His best-known contribution to social theory is his study of symbolic interaction. This took the form of dramaturgical analysis, beginning with his 1956 book The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life. Goffman's other major works include Asylums (1961), Stigma (1963), Interaction Ritual (1967), Frame Analysis (1974), and Forms of Talk (1981). His major areas of study included the sociology of everyday life, social interaction, the social construction of self, social organization (framing) of experience, and particular elements of social life such as total institutions and stigmas.