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This Handbook answers a long-standing need for an up-to-date, comprehensive, international, in-depth critical survey of the history, trajectory, data, results and key figures involved in sociolinguistics. The result is a work of unprecedented coverage and insight. It is all here, from the foundational contributions to the field to the impact of new media, new technologies of communication, globalization, trans-border fluidities and agendas of research.
Chapter 8: Symbolic Interactionism, Erving Goffman, and Sociolinguistics
Symbolic Interactionism, Erving Goffman, and Sociolinguistics
8.1 Introduction
Sociologist Erving Goffman (1922–82) devoted his career to exploring the nuances of face-to-face interaction to discover and describe the underlying interaction order. From his early ethnographies of a small island community ...
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