In public, we often cannot help overhearing other people's private conversations. And often we may suspect that they are put on especially for us. What, then, is the communicative status of the people involved here? And does it change things if people expect to be overheard? Goffman, Levinson and others have developed categories for people's participation in communication, e.g. speaker, overhearer, eavesdropper and bystander. In this seminar, we look at various communicative constellations and analyse the participation structure. Apart from introducing the necessary theory, the course has a very strong empirical component.
Literature:
Drew, Paul/Anthony Wootton (Eds.) (1988), Erving Goffman. Exploring the Interaction Order. Oxford: Polity
Dynel, Marta (2011), "You talking to me?" The viewer as a Ratified Listener to Film discourse. Journal of Pragmatics 43, 1628-1644.
Goffman, Erving (1981), Forms of Talk. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
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