„Społeczeństwo na deskach teatru" - koncepcja Ervinga Goffmana a lingwistyka kognitywna

Abstract

The article explores the problem of functioning of the “cultureme” - a cultural metaphor of the world perceived as a linguistic theatre - the cognitivistic notion apparatus has served to analyse the functioning of a metaphor in the sociological theory of interactionism described in Erving Goffman’s work The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life. A result of the analysis is finding the so called loci communes, i.e. “common places”, topoi - Shakespeare’s common life theatre, which at the same time attests to the interdisciplinary dialogue between linguistics and sociology. Goffman needed to refer human life to the theatre not only as a sociologist creating a theory and requiring a descriptive tool, but also as a man who participates in the interaction process himself. Thus, for Goffman, theatre puts social reality in order; it is an “indispensable condition to experience it and to know it”, and at the same time, it constitutes the point of departure to create a universal theory bases on the cultureme.