scispace - formally typeset
Journal ArticleDOI

On face-work; an analysis of ritual elements in social interaction.

Erving Goffman
- 01 Aug 1955 - 
- Vol. 18, Iss: 3, pp 213-231
About
This article is published in Psychiatry MMC.The article was published on 1955-08-01. It has received 2287 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Social relation & Personality disorders.

read more

Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI

Motherhood and the Construction of “Mommy Identity”: Messages about Motherhood and Face Negotiation

TL;DR: This paper examined women's attitudes about motherhood by utilizing the concept of "face" and the role memorable messages play in the construction of women's identities as mothers, finding that women could recall messages from a variety of sources, including family members and other mothers.
Journal ArticleDOI

Managing linguistic incompetence as a delicate issue in aphasic talk-in-interaction: On the use of laughter in prolonged repair sequences

Abstract: While problems of understandability have been well documented as one consequence of aphasia in talk-in-interaction, the fact that the linguistic limitations associated with aphasia can lead to a speaker producing displays of linguistic incompetence which are treated as delicate and potentially embarrassing has been less investigated. In this paper two methods by which aphasic speakers can be seen to treat their displays of incompetence as delicate are analysed. Both involve treating the non-competence as laughable and are produced within self-initiated repair sequences at a point where the speaker has failed to produce a self-repair despite a prolonged attempt which has markedly delayed the ongoing progressivity of the turn. One method involves the aphasic speaker producing laughter which alone or with a verbal account marks his/her self-repair attempt at that point as having failed. In response, the conversation partners recurrently do not respond to this laughter with laughter of their own. The second method involves the aphasic speaker producing a ‘humorous noticing’ of a repair try which has been produced as an error. In response to these humorous noticings conversation partners regularly laugh. These methods of managing delicate displays of linguistic incompetence are discussed, along with some methods of turn construction used by aphasic speakers which result in such displays of linguistic incompetence being less likely to occur.
Journal ArticleDOI

Targeted workplace incivility: The roles of belongingness, embarrassment, and power

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the extent to which perceived belongingness and embarrassment mediate the relationship between incivility from a single perpetrator and two important outcomes (job insecurity and somatic symptoms), and found that the perpetrator's power moderates these relationships.
Journal ArticleDOI

Supervisor–subordinate conflict and perceptions of leadership behavior: a field study

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the structure and correlates of conflict in vertical dyads and found that such conflict has a two-factor structure: one factor is pure emotional conflict, and the second factor is mixed conflict, a combination of emotional and task conflict.