Participation and Community
Charles Goodwin
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Participation and Community 1
Goffman’s Model of Participation -- Footing 1981
Participation
Production
Status
Format
Speakers
Embedding
• Sounding Box, Animator
• Author
• Principal
Responsible for talk being
quoted
• Figure
Protagonist, character
in a described scene
Ann:
Roles of the several members
of the encompassing
social gathering
Hearers
• Official Participants
°Addressed Recipients
° Unaddressed Recipients
• Evesdropper
• Overhearer
• Bystanders
• Audiences
Commentary on
Talk Being Quoted
Laugh Tokens
Do(h)n said (0.3)
dih-did they ma:ke you take this wa(h)llpa(h)p(h)er?
=er(h)di dju pi(h)ck i(h)t ou(h)t.
Participation and Community 2
5 Ann:
6-7
1
8
Karen his this new hou:se.
En it’s got all this like (0.2) ssilvery:: g-gold wwa:llpaper,
Party being
Projects
Animated
Quote
•hh (h) en D(h)o(h)n sa(h)s,
Speaker
9
10
11
12 Beth:
2
y’know this’s th’firs’time we’ve seen this house.
=Fifty five thousn dollars in Cherry Hill.=Right?
(0.4)
uh hu:h?
3
13
14
15
16
17
Ann:
Beth:
Ann:
Beth:
Background
Climax:
What Don Said
Do(h)n said (0.3)
dih-did they make you take this wa(h)llpa(h)p(h)er?
hh!
=er(h) di dju pi(h)ck i(h)t ou(h)t.
Participation and Community 3
Ahh huh huh huh huh=
Speakers and Hearers Inhabit Separate Worlds
Production
Format Embedding
Speakers
• Sounding Box, Animator
• Author
• Principal
Responsible for talk being
quoted
• Figure
Protagonist, character
in a described scene
Ann:
Participation
Status
Roles of the several members
of the encompassing
social gathering
Hearers
• Official Participants
°Addressed Recipients
° Unaddressed Recipients
• Evesdropper
• Overhearer
• Bystanders
• Audiences
Commentary on
Talk Being Quoted
Laugh Tokens
Do(h)n said (0.3)
dih-did they ma:ke you take this wa(h)llpa(h)p(h)er?
=er(h)di dju pi(h)ck i(h)t ou(h)t.
Participation and Community 4
Participation Status
Roles of the several members of
the encompassing social gathering
°Addressed Recipients
° Unaddressed Recipients
• Evesdropper
• Overhearer Typology of
Static
• Bystanders
Categories
• Audiences
Ann:
2
Beth:
Ann:
Ann:
•hh (h) en D(h)o(h)n sa(h)s,
1
Background
y’know this’s th’firs’time we’ve seen this house.
=Fifty five thousn dollars in Cherry Hill.=Right?
(0.4)
Climax:
uh hu:h?
3
What Don Said
Do(h)n said (0.3)
dih-did they make you take this wa(h)llpa(h)p(h)er?
Participation and Community 5
=er(h) di dju pi(h)ck i(h)t ou(h)t.
Participation Status
Roles of the several members of
the encompassing social gathering
°Addressed Recipients
° Unaddressed Recipients
• Evesdropper
• Overhearer Typology of
Static
• Bystanders
Categories
• Audiences
Ann:
2
Beth:
Ann:
Ann:
Participation
• a temporally unfolding process
• through which separate parties demonstrate to each other their ongoing understanding of the events they are engaged in
• by building actions that contribute to the
further progression of these very same
events
•hh (h) en D(h)o(h)n sa(h)s,
1
Background
y’know this’s th’firs’time we’ve seen this house.
=Fifty five thousn dollars in Cherry Hill.=Right?
(0.4)
Climax:
uh hu:h?
3
What Don Said
Do(h)n said (0.3)
dih-did they make you take this wa(h)llpa(h)p(h)er?
Participation and Community 6
=er(h) di dju pi(h)ck i(h)t ou(h)t.
Chil’s Semiotic Resources
Pat
Three Words:
Yes, No,
And
Intonation
Ih dih dih dih dih:::!
12 Chil:
°mmm Nih nih duh duh Da duh.
13 Pat:
So five of us can fit there.
14
15 Pat:
(0.2)
Seven a clock.
Gesture
Chil
Participation and Community 7
Bird
Calendar
*hhh Wow!
Pat:
Triggering
Event
Response
Cry
Those are great pictures.
Elaborating
Sentence
Participation and Community 8
Chil:
Pat:
*hhh Wow!
Dih-dih-dih-dih
Those are great pictures.
Participation and Community 9
Chil produces an Assessment only
AFTER his gaze reaches the picture
Chil:
Pat:
((Moves gaze to
Calendar)) Dih-dih-dih-dih
*hhh Wow!
Those are great pictures.
Participation and Community 10