Mervyn Horgan
List of John Benjamins publications for which Mervyn Horgan plays a role.
Articles
2020 Urban interaction ritual: Strangership, civil inattention and everyday incivilities in public space The Pragmatics of Ritual, Kádár, Dániel Z. and Juliane House (eds.), pp. 116–141 | Article
Most encounters between strangers in urban public spaces involve the ritual of civil inattention (Goffman 1963). Generalized diffusion of this ritual upholds the urban interaction order. This article outlines a typology of infractions of the ritual of civil inattention, and focuses on two types:… read more
2019 Everyday incivility and the urban interaction order: Theorizing moral affordances in ritualized interaction Morality and language aggression, Kádár, Dániel Z. and Vahid Parvaresh (eds.), pp. 32–55 | Article
Treating uncivil encounters as breaches of the ritual contract of civil inattention (Goffman 1963), this article connects ritualized interaction between strangers in everyday life and the production and maintenance of moral order more generally. The ongoing enactment of the ritual of civil… read more