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Publication details [#17552]

Rae, John. 2001. Organizing Participation in Interaction: Doing Participation Framework. Research on Language and Social Interaction 34 (2) : 253–278.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
Lawrence Erlbaum

Annotation

Goffman (1981) introduced the terms participation status and participation framework to differentiate how people involved in an interactional setting participate in that setting. In this article, I examine a particular work context in which participants in an interaction reorganize their participation such that, although remaining physically copresent, one of them makes or receives telephone calls to or from a non-copresent party. I show how this is a major site of body movement, including synchronous postural change (Kendon, 1990) before and after the call, and I examine the participants' vocal and nonvocal resources for entry into involvement with the phone call. Examination of these resources leads to a critical assessment of the concept of participation frameworks.