34.74, FYI: New Open Access Book: Erving Goffman’s 1953 dissertation, Communication Conduct in an Island Community

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Subject: 34.74, FYI: New Open Access Book: Erving Goffman’s 1953 dissertation, Communication Conduct in an Island Community

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From: Jeff Pooley [pooley at muhlenberg.edu]
Subject: New Open Access Book: Erving Goffman’s 1953 dissertation, Communication Conduct in an Island Community


New Open Access Book: Erving Goffman’s 1953 dissertation,
Communication Conduct in an Island Community

mediastudies.press is a scholar-led, nonprofit, no-fee open access
publisher in the media, film, and communication studies fields. We are
excited to announce the publication of Erving Goffman’s remarkable
1953 dissertation, Communication Conduct in an Island Community:

https://www.mediastudies.press/communication-conduct-in-an-island-comm
unity

Canadian-born Erving Goffman (1922–1982) was the twentieth century’s
most important sociologist writing in English. His 1953 dissertation
is published here for the first time, on the hundredth anniversary of
his birth. The study, based on fieldwork on a remote Scottish island,
presents in embryonic form the full spread of Goffman’s thought.
Framed as a “report on a study of conversational interaction,” the
dissertation lingers on the modest talk of island “crofters.” It is
trademark Goffman: ambitious, unconventional in form, and brimmed with
big-picture insight. The thesis is that social order is made and
re-made in communication—the “interaction order” he re-visited in a
famous and final talk before his 1982 death. The dissertation is, as
Yves Winkin writes in a new introduction, the “Rosetta stone for his
entire work.” It was here, in 360 dense pages, that Goffman revealed,
quietly, his peerless sensitivity to the invisible wireframes of
everyday life.

The book is available online and as a free download in PDF and ePub. A
paperback version is also available.

https://www.mediastudies.press/communication-conduct-in-an-island-comm
unity

Communication Conduct in an Island Community appears in the Public
Domain series. Scholars interested in proposing volumes in this or
other series are encouraged to reach out with a query:

https://www.mediastudies.press/queries

You can learn more about mediastudies.press, including our operations
and OA principles, on our site:

https://www.mediastudies.press/about

The press is a member of the Open Book Collective and the ScholarLed
consortium, and also publishes the History of Media Studies journal.
Please contact us at press at mediastudies.press

Linguistic Field(s): History of Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics




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