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  1. Footing.Erving Goffman - 1979 - Semiotica 25 (1-2):1-30.
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  • Extreme case formulations: A way of legitimizing claims. [REVIEW]Anita Pomerantz - 1986 - Human Studies 9 (2-3):219 - 229.
    This paper has described three uses of Extreme Case formulationsto assert the strongest case in anticipation of non-sympathetic hearingsto propose the cause of a phenomenonto speak for the rightness (wrongness) of a practice.The interactants in the illustrations were engaged in several types of activities, among which were complaining, accusing, justifying, and defending. As concluding remarks, a few comments will be made about why participants use Extreme Case formulations in these activities.Part of the business of complaining involves portraying a situation as (...)
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  • Orientation in Immigrant Narratives: The Role of Ethnicity in the Identification of Characters. [REVIEW]Anna de Fina - 2000 - Discourse Studies 2 (2):131-157.
    Every year, thousands of undocumented Mexican workers enter the United States. Their presence, together with the settlement of undocumented and legal immigrants from many other countries, constitutes the source of one of the most persistent ideological conflicts in American history: the conflict over immigrants' rights. Official discourses in many cases identify being Hispanic with poor performance at school, drug abuse, poverty and violence. However, aside from mainstream images of who immigrants are, little research has been done on the identity that (...)
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