Relations in Public: Microstudies of the Public Order

by Erving Goffman (Author)

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  2009

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  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. This title provides a grammar of the unspoken language used in public places.