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Language, self, and social order: A reformulation of Goffman and Sacks

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This paper was written with the support of an NIMH Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I wish to thank Jay Meehan, Harold Garfinkel, Fran Waksler, George Psathas, Doug Maynard and Randall Collins for helpful comments and suggestions.

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Rawls, A.W. Language, self, and social order: A reformulation of Goffman and Sacks. Hum Stud 12, 147–172 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00142843

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