Erving Said That the Rigor and Formal Nature of Linguistics Could Add Status to the Just-Beginning Study of Social Interaction

Authors

Deborah Schiffrin, Georgetown University

Editors

Dmitri N. Shalin

Document Type

Correspondence

Publication Date

7-3-2009

Publication Title

Bios Sociologicus: The Erving Goffman Archives

Publisher

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

First page number:

1

Last page number:

3

Abstract

Dr. Deborah Schiffrin, professor of linguistics at Georgetown University, wrote this memoir for the Erving Goffman Archives and approved posting the present version on the web.

Keywords

Biography; Goffman; Erving; Social interaction; Sociologists; Symbolic interactionism

Disciplines

Politics and Social Change | Social Psychology and Interaction | Sociology

Language

English

Publisher Citation

Bios Sociologicus: The Erving Goffman Archives, ed. by Dmitri N. Shalin (UNLV: CDC Publications, 2009).

Repository Citation

Schiffrin, D. (2009). Erving Said That the Rigor and Formal Nature of Linguistics Could Add Status to the Just-Beginning Study of Social Interaction. In Dmitri N. Shalin, Bios Sociologicus: The Erving Goffman Archives 1-3.
Available at: https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/goffman_archives/59