EDUC389b Week 3

EDUC389b Week 3 Agha: Language and Social Relations

Voice, Footing, Enregisterment

Goffman: Footing     The world is a stage, operationalized. “Every interaction is a situated performance”

    Footing is the legitimated situatedness of a situated performance. 

    What roles are available, in what contexts

Footing: How you get traction in a frame.  Voice: A token of a type, the musical sense. Aligning across frames. (Think transposition)  Bakhtin: Realist reportage, realist literary fiction (could be understood to represent today’s everyday) How authors arrange voices of characters within a narrative to voice themselves.      Read what’s said, and also read what’s done while said. 

Enregisterment: the set of practices that are understood to correspond to a model of personhood, and how people (or other entities) are recruited to inhabit them. Implies naturalization. The creation of sets. 

Goffman: The Lecture

The ways that forms of communication and race & ethnicity are jointly naturalized. HOW is it that certain  Does agency exist? The best we can do is navigate. [We can never step outside of our enregisterments]

Suki: Does agency take a nose-dive when it steps outside of the space of self-meaning-making? Response: Emma and I were 

Enregisterment of the imagination

Children are our romantic investment in the infinite possibilities.      If our frame for what children are doing is coming to consciousness, what do they use that to do?

Not agency but subjectivity