Erving Goffman (1922–1983) was not a linguist. Although he admired linguists as the only group of scholars with “the capacity to study the small behaviours of their own society and to treat the conduct of their own familiars objectively” (1971: xviii), only one aspect of language form, tangentially, attracted his attention (see end of Section 4). He was not interested in semantics at all. He did, it is true, quite frequently have recourse to examples of language in his writings, but his examination of these was always perfunctory in the extreme because, for him, they were never the object of examination themselves; they were there only as illustrations of something else.

References

NOTE: The Goffman references in this list are incomplete in two respects. First, they refer only to the volumes to which I had recourse; his papers, collected in many of these, are not recorded separately. Second, it is not a bibliography; only works cited in the text are recorded here. For attempts at comprehensive bibliographies, see Ditton (1980) and www.tau.ac.il/~algazi/mat/goffman.htm.

Aronsson, K.

1996 Collaboration in dialogues. Handbook of Pragmatics. John Benjamins.  BoP

Bargiela-Chiappini, F.

Face and politeness: new (insights) for old (concepts). Journal of Pragmatics 35(10/11): 1453–1469.  BoP

Benford, R. & D. Snow

2000 Framing Processes and Social Movements: An Overview and Assessment. Annual Review of Sociology 26: 11–39.

Brown, P. & S. Levinson

1987 Politeness: some universals in language usage. Cambridge University Press.

Cromdal, J. & K. Aronsson

2000 Footing in bilingual play. Journal of Sociolinguistics 4(3): 435–457.  BoP

Ditton, J.

1980 A bibliographical exegesis of Goffman’s sociology. In J. Ditton (ed.) The view from Goffman. St. Martin’s Press.

Drew, P. & J. Heritage

(eds.) 1992 Talk at work: interaction in institutional settings. Cambridge University Press.  BoP

Drew, P. & A. Wooton

(eds.) 1988 Erving Goffman: exploring the interaction order. Polity Press.

Friedson, E.

1983 Celebrating Erving Goffman. Contemporary Sociology 12(4): 359–262.

Goffman, E.

1959 The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life. Penguin.  BoP

Goffman, E.

1961 Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates. Penguin.

Goffman, E.

1963a Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity. Penguin.

Goffman, E.

1963b Behavior in Public Places: Notes on the Social Organization of Gatherings. Free Press of Glencoe.

Goffman, E.

1964 The Neglected Situation. American Anthropologist 66(6), part II (Special issue): 133–136.  BoP

Goffman, E.

1967 Interaction Ritual: Essays on Face-to-Face Behavior. Penguin.  BoP

Goffman, E.

1971 Relations in Public: Microstudies of the Public Order. Allen Lane (Penguin).  BoP

Goffman, E.

1974 Frame Analysis: An Essay on the Organization of Experience. Peregrine Books (Penguin).  BoP

Goffman, E.

1981 Forms of Talk. Blackwell.  BoP

Goffman, E.

1983 The Interaction Order. American Sociological Review 48: 1–17.

Grimshaw, D.

(ed.) 1990 Conflict Talk: Sociolinguistic investigations of arguments in conversations. Cambridge University Press.

Horn, R & G. Ward

2004 The Handbook of Pragmatics. Blackwell.  BoP

Hutchby, I.

1999 Frame attunement and footing in the organisation of radio talk openings. Journal of Sociolinguistics 3(1): 41–63.  BoP

Hutchby, I. & P. Drew

1995 Conversation Analysis. Handbook of Pragmatics (Manual).  BoP

Kendon, A.

1988 Goffman’s approach to face-to-face interaction. In P. Drew & A. Wooton (eds.): 14–40.

Kendon, A.

1990 Conducting Interaction: Patterns of Behaviour in Focused Encounters. Cambridge University Press.  BoP

Levinson, S.

1988 Putting Linguistics on a proper footing. In P. Drew & A. Wooton (eds.): 161–227.

O’driscoll, J.

2001 A face model of language choice. Multilingua 20(3): 245–268.  BoP

Sarangi, S. & C. Roberts

(eds.) 1999 Talk, work and institutional order: Discourse in medical, mediation and management settings. Mouton de Gruyter.  BoP

Schegloff, E.

1988 Goffman and the analysis of conversation. In P. Drew & A. Wooton (eds.): 89–135.

Tannen, D.

(ed.) 1993 Framing in discourse. Oxford University Press.  BoP

Watts, R.

2003 Politeness. Cambridge University Press.  BoP

Williams, R.

1988 Understanding Goffman’s methods. In P. Drew & A. Wooton (eds.): 64–88.