...In the language of Kenneth Burke 'doing is being'. "[46] Without a stage there is no man. To Goffman the "proper study of interaction is not the individual...different persons mutually present to one another. [47] In other words, Goffman de-emphasizes the smaller part in favor of the larger part. When Goffman's...

...particular interaction and its resulting "definition of the situation." In this regard Goffman notes: I assume that the proper study of interaction is not...acts of different persons mutually present to one another.2 The question becomes, not what is this or that person thinking and how does this perception...

...in fact psychological. Romans (1964, p. 817) / assume that the proper study of interaction is not in the individual and his psychology, but rather the...different persons mutually present to one another. Goffman(1967, p. 2) THE DISCURSIVE ALTERNATIVE In the preceding chapters, I have tried to demonstrate...

...the affinity between sociolinguistic interests and Goffman's own (cf. 1971: xviii-xix). For example: I assume that the proper study of interaction is not...different persons mutually present to one another (1967: 2). Goffman is fully conversant with the way formal sociology rules out the particular psychological...

...as a field in its own right, the study of "interaction in natural settings" (Goffman, 1967, p. 1); "the syntactical relations among the acts of different persons mutually present to one another" (Goffman, 1967, p. 2); the study of face-to-face interaction as a naturally bounded, anaiytically coherent...

...behind what a speaker is saying. As Goffman once said: "The proper study of interaction is not with the individual and his psychology, but rather the...relations among the acts of different persons mutually presented to one another."53 CONCLUSION There are complex links between people's intentions and the...

...of interaction has what he called a 'syntax'. In the Introduction to Interaction Ritual he observes: I assume that the proper study of interaction is not...different persons mutually present to one another. tGoffman. 1967: 2t The panicipants use this 'syntax' - a socio-logic of interaction that provides for...

...early figure who helped to legitimate this area of investigation, maintained that its "proper study ... is not the individual and his psychology, but rather...different persons mutually present to one another" (Goffman 1967:2; quoted in Snow 1999:9). In all four of these literatures Snow finds a focus on relational...

...'interaction order.' Of paramount importance in 'the proper study of [face-toface] interaction,' he argues, 'is not the individual and his psychology, but rather...different persons mutually present to one another' (Goffman 1967, p. 2). A 'sociology of occasions' is called for that takes as its unit of analysis a...

...institutional arrangement does not so much support the self as constitute it. (Goffman 1961a: 168) [T]he proper study of interaction is not the individual...psychology, but rather the syntactical relations among acts of different persons mutually present to one another. . . . Not, then, men [sic] and their moments....