Goffman

[randall henry eggert]

Dear James Cornish,

Although I've read a fair amount of Goffman's work, I'm not sure I could
help you much on your project; however, I have a much deeper
methodological question about what you are doing.  What kind of project is
this?  What are you trying to show?  I am very skeptical of research in
which the researcher analyzes their own speech.  I think it is nearly
impossible to be truly objective about the major question of "what's going
on here?" when you are one of the participants who helped to create the
text being evaluated.

Happiness,
Randy Eggert


 On Thu, 18 Feb 1999,
James Cornish 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