CCT210H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: University Of Toronto Mississauga, Erving Goffman, Semiotics

• School: UTM
• Department: Communication, Culture and Technology
• Course: CCT210H5
• Professor: Elizabeth Peden

Document Summary

Lecture 9: semiotics of constructing our audience/constructing ourselves. Information about the individual helps to define the situation, enabling others to know in. Informed in these ways, the others will know how to best act in order to call forth a advance what he will expect of them and what they may expect of him. Many sources of information become accessible and many carriers become available for. The expressiveness of an individual appears to involve two radically different kinds of sign. The individual will have to act so that he/she intentionally or. Expression that he/she gives attach to symbols. When an individual appears before others, his/her actions will influence the definition of the. Individuals will try to exploit this very possibly (check up on the more controllable aspects of situation which they come to have behaviour), guiding the impression he/she makes through behaviour felt to be reliably informing.