M’Balia Thomas

List of John Benjamins publications in which M’Balia Thomas is involved.

Article

Thomas, M’Balia 2020 Rendering the untellable, tellable: The cooperative work of face in conversational storytelling Narrative Inquiry 30:2, pp. 364–380 | Article

Goffman’s concepts of face and face work, and his assertion that talk in face-to-face interaction is cooperative, are undertheorized and often critiqued. In an attempt to expand on these concepts, excerpts are analyzed from a single-teller narrative which evolves into a 13-minute conversational… read more