Forms of Talk by Erving Goffman

Author:Erving Goffman [Goffman, Erving]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Philosophy, General, Epistemology, Language Arts & Disciplines, Linguistics, Speech, communication, Communication Studies, Oral communication
ISBN: 9780812211122
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 1981-04-15T17:45:13+00:00

from his involvement with you, as opposed to his commitment to publicity, but don't count on it.)

Finally it should be said that although a lecture can be the main business of the social occasion in which it is embedded-an arrangement that speakers presumably find ideal--other settings are common. In the United States, for example, there is the institution of the lunch speaker, and the understanding that a membership's regular get-togethers for a meal cannot be complete without a guest speaker; who, or on what topic, need not be a first consideration--anyone in the neighborhood who does talks for a fee will often do. (In many cases, of course, we might find it more natural to speak of such luncheon performances as giving a talk, not a lecture, the critical difference somehow involving the matter of systematic topic development.) And just as an occasion can make a convenience of a speaker, so a speaker can make a convenience of an occasion, as when a political figure graces a local gathering but his main concern is the transmission of his talk to media audiences.

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