Goffman

[Barbara Johnstone]

James,

You might want to look at Framing in Discourse, ed. by Deborah Tannen,
Oxford 1993.  I don't remember whether any of the authors talks much about
Goffman, but the idea is similar and you could get some sense of how to
study it.

Barbara Johnstone

--On Thursday, February 18, 1999, 6:29 AM -0600 "James Cornish"
<jwcornish at TAMU.EDU> wrote:

> Discoursers
>
> I'm going to apply the ideas Irving Goffman's "Footing" article to found
> found in his Forms of Talk book (1981) to a teaching tape I made of
> myself recently in an ESL freshman composition class.  If anyone is
> familiar with this phase of Goffman's thinking, do you have any
> suggestions?  I can't use the "Lecture" chapter; it's gotta be
> "Footing."
>
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