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    Urban interaction ritual

    Strangership, civil inattention and everyday incivilities in public space

  • Author(s): Mervyn HorganORCID icon
  • Source: Pragmatics
    Available online: 06 December 2019
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/prag.19022.hor
    • Received : 24 Apr 2019
    • Accepted : 07 Oct 2019
    • Version of Record published : 06 Dec 2019

Abstract

Abstract

Most encounters between strangers in urban public spaces involve the ritual of civil inattention ( ). Generalized diffusion of this ritual upholds the urban interaction order. This article outlines a typology of infractions of the ritual of civil inattention, and focuses on two types: uncivil attention and uncivil inattention. Drawing on interviews ( = 326) about participants’ most recent encounter with a rude stranger in urban public space gathered by the Researching Incivilities in Everyday Life (RIEL) Project, variations between verbally, physically, and gesturally initiated incivilities are examined. Data suggests a correlation between types of initiating move and subsequent verbal exchange. Analysis demonstrates the value of ritual framing for understanding interactional conflict between strangers, and indicates that the broader concept of incivility can supplement and extend existing impoliteness research by encompassing both linguistic and non-linguistic forms of interactional conflict.

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