TY - JOUR

T1 - Little dramas of discomposure

T2 - On doing face-work with disaligning actions

AU - Dellwing, Michael

PY - 2012/5

Y1 - 2012/5

N2 - Usually, they are attributed to mere bodily reactions which the portrayer does not control. However, that is not an abstract fact, but a definition of the situation that is a social achievement. This achievement is consequential: it allows for a form of everyday communication from which intention is drained, but judgment is not. Little dramas of discomposure are thus important elements of face-work that can be analyzed as such: They allow for a negotiation of identity through reaction to ascriptions made by others, but reactions that remain on the back stage and thus avoid negotiations of rank and hierarchy that would usually accompany communications of judgment.

AB - Usually, they are attributed to mere bodily reactions which the portrayer does not control. However, that is not an abstract fact, but a definition of the situation that is a social achievement. This achievement is consequential: it allows for a form of everyday communication from which intention is drained, but judgment is not. Little dramas of discomposure are thus important elements of face-work that can be analyzed as such: They allow for a negotiation of identity through reaction to ascriptions made by others, but reactions that remain on the back stage and thus avoid negotiations of rank and hierarchy that would usually accompany communications of judgment.

KW - Aligning actions

KW - Emotion

KW - Face-work

KW - Sociology

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84867510209&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1002/SYMB.15

DO - 10.1002/SYMB.15

M3 - Journal articles

AN - SCOPUS:84867510209

VL - 35

SP - 146

EP - 161

JO - Symbolic Interaction

JF - Symbolic Interaction

SN - 0195-6086

IS - 2

ER -