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Staging a Team Performance

A Linguistic Ethnographic Analysis of Weekly Meetings at a British Embassy

Ghent University (Belgium), Ellen.VanPraet{at}UGent.be

Drawing on insights from Goffman's dramaturgical approach to interaction, this article demonstrates how meetings are team performances routinely concerned with sustaining or challenging interpretations of power relations. The data for this article were collected at a British embassy, relying on participant observation, audio recordings of weekly gatherings of Heads of Section, and interviews with the people that attended the meeting. The analysis focuses on the double role behavior of the Ambassador as the director and central player of a team performance and the conflicting ideologies these shifting roles entail.

Key Words: linguistic ethnography • meeting • Goffman • team performance • impression management • diplomacy • leadership

Journal of Business Communication, Vol. 46, No. 1, 80-99 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/0021943608325754


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