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"Of moments and their [individuals]" : une relecture goffmanienne de la stigmatisation des identités "hégémoniques"
2022
Revisiter la pensée goffmanienne à l’ère des mouvements identitaires genrés, racialisés, ethnicisés, religieux, nous donne l’occasion de constater l’actualité des mécanismes symboliques et sociaux mis au jour par le sociologue, tout en les nuançant par rapport à un contexte social et médiatique complexe, connecté et cosmopolite (Frame, 2015), traversé par des dynamiques identitaires parfois polarisées et hyperinvesties. À partir de l’exemple des identités genrées, cette contribution propose de repenser la figuration symbolique (facework) à l’échelle microsociale, configurée par des discours méso- ou macrosociaux qui rendent « suspecte » les identités dites « hégémoniques ».La catégorisation…
A multimodal analysis of facework strategies in a corpus of charity ads on British television
2013
Abstract The aim of this article is to carry out a qualitative multimodal analysis of the codification of verbal and non-verbal politeness strategies in a sub-corpus of five charity commercials aired on British television. Brown and Levinson's (1987) verbal politeness strategies are taken as a starting point together with a detailed analysis of facework that is realized through paralinguistic and extralinguistic modes of communication ( Kress and van Leeuwen, 2006 , Machin, 2010 ). In what we have identified as the problem phase of the commercial, our analysis has revealed that advertisers deliberately attempt to create threats to the viewer's positive and negative face by making him/her fe…
Facework and Prosocial Teasing in a Synchronous Video Communication Exchange
2019
This study centres on the analysis of prosocial teasing during a videoconference (telecollaboration) exchange between mixed-gender adolescent secondary school students from Spain and Germany. We contend that the provocative elements present in prosocial teasing activate a play frame, in Gregory Bateson’s terms, in which seemingly hostile face acts can be interpreted as playful behaviour. We argue that successful teasing can ultimately enhance the face of the teaser and that of the person being teased and thus build up rapport between them. Our analysis of the facework in the interaction during this telecollaboration exchange is based on Erwin Goffman’s notions of face, demeanour and deferen…
Interventions of speakers of Polish and British parliaments in the light of politeness theory
2021
Abstract The present study attempts to analyze the interventions of Speakers of Polish and British Parliaments in the selected exchanges from 2018 to 2019 in terms of discourse-sensitive politeness theory advanced by Jonathan Culpeper. He proposes to use three types of impoliteness that affect three types of interlocutors’ faces via a range of impoliteness strategies. In the analyses we consider the linguistic, personal, and cultural as well as political context of the exchanges against the background of the unique, historically rooted institutional circumstances, with a special emphasis on the role of different physical contexts of respective Parliamentary chambers. We emphasize the discur…
Interventions of Speakers of Polish and British Parliaments in the light of politeness theory
2021
The present study attempts to analyze the interventions of Speakers of Polish and British Parliaments in the selected exchanges from 2018 to 2019 in terms of discourse-sensitive politeness theory advanced by Jonathan Culpeper. He proposes to use three types of impoliteness that affect three types of interlocutors’faces via a range of impoliteness strategies. In the analyses we consider the linguistic, personal, and cultural as well as political context of the exchanges against the background of the unique, historically rooted institutional circumstances, with a special emphasis on the role of different physical contexts of respective Parliamentary chambers. We emphasize the discursive natur…