Speech Communication In Erving Goffman’s’ “The Presentation of self in everyday life”, Goffman describes how people transact and confirm identities in face-to-face encounters. And Goffman also describes how people establish a molding with in which to evaluate the meaning of encounters. I agree that people act differently when in contact with different people in different environments. Erving Goffman worked to describe the structure of face-to-face communication and to report for how that structure was …showed first 75 words of 466 total…

…showed last 75 words of 466 total…the embarrassment consequent upon how it will be necessary for all people in the interaction, as well as those not included, to posses certain characteristics and to express these characteristics to save the “show” they are acting upon. I feel people must be able to defend their characteristics and must be able to respond with each other in a moderate and proper manner to avoid embarrassment and to keep the interaction in tact. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**