Erving Goffman (1981), Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 335 pp. — https://lccn.loc.gov/80052806
Key takeaways
Filed, not read: no lawful full text was reachable (see the history note). Known here by what it is standardly cited for: the essay “Footing” decomposes the speaker into a production format of animator (who utters), author (who composes) and principal (whose position is expressed), and the hearer into a participation framework; a change of footing is a change in the alignment a speaker takes up toward the others and toward the utterance.
Standing in the record
Filed on 2026-10-09 at the owner’s request, as one of the works in the reference list of the owner’s working manuscript (October 2026) that the record did not yet hold. See the curation entry of that day.