Until recently, to be in a public place meant to feel safe. That has
changed, especially in cities. Urban dwellers sense the need to
quickly react to gestural cues from persons in their immediate
presence in order to establish their relationship to each other.
Through this communication they hope to detect potential danger before
it is too late for self-defense or flight. The ability to read
accurately the informing signs by which strangers indicate their
relationship to one another in public or semi-public places without
speaking, has become as important as understanding the official
written and spoken language of the country.In Relations in Public,
Erving Goff man provides a grammar of the unspoken language used in
public places. He shows that the way strangers relate in public is
part of a design by which friends and acquaintances manage their
relationship in the presence of bystanders. He argues that, taken
together, this forms part of a new domain of inquiry into the rules
for co-mingling, or public order.Most people give little thought to
how elaborate and complex our everyday behavior in public actually is.
For example, we adhere to the rules of pedestrian traffic on a busy
thoroughfare, accept the usual ways of acting in a crowded elevator or
subway car, grasp the delicate nuances of conversational behavior, and
respond to the rich vocabulary of body gestures. We behave differently
at weddings, at meals, in crowds, in couples, and when alone. Such
everyday behavior, though generally below the level of awareness,
embodies unspoken codes of social understandings necessary for the
orderly conduct of society.
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ISBN
9781351493895
Publisert
2017
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Routledge
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Product language
Engelsk
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Digital bok
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