Forms of Talk by Erving Goffman

Forms of Talk

Erving Goffman

344 pages first pub 1981 (editions)

nonfiction sociology challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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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 con...

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