The fragments below are for use IN CLASS on Tuesday February 19 2013 The fragments for discussion section on Wednesday February 20 are in a different file Lanham pp 15 6 teal prepositions purple to be verbs The connection between behavior in the socially real world and dramatic performance is a double link Much of everyday social behavior and socially consequential action is itself composed and often in a fashion which is recognized at the time as theatrical or is revealed as such afterwards When we construct special buildings or settings for ritual occasions of many kinds from judicial proceedings to love making when we set scenes and dress up or dress down for a social occasion there is a resemblance which may not be admitted even to ourselves to the enactment of composed theatrical performances by professional actors Tacitly or explicitly we constantly draw on symbolic references and typifications shared by playwright actors and audience This is the basis of the adoption of dramaturgic terminology by social scientists and of its elaboration in the mere analogy of the analysis of social behavior as more or less skilled performance by Erving Goffman and as symbolic interaction by Blumer Becker and others Lanham p 18 yellow finite verbs But what after all is one night A short space especially when the darkness dims so soon and so soon a bird sings a cock crows or a faint green quickens like a turning leaf in the hollow of the wave Night however succeeds to night The winter holds a pack of them in store and deals them equally evenly with indefatigable fingers They lengthen they darken Some of them hold aloft clear planets plates of brightness The autumn trees ravaged as they are taken on the flash of tattered flags kindling in the gloom of cool cathedral caves where gold letters on marble pages describe death in battle and how bones bleach and burn far away in Indian sands The autumn trees gleam in the yellow moonlight in the light of the harvest moons the light which mellows the energy of labour and smooths the stubble and brings the wave lapping blue to the shore Lanham p 34 4 sentences in no dependent clauses parataxis No sense of dependency between sentences Now in the fall the trees were all bare and the roads were muddy I rode to Gorizia from Udine on a camion We passed other camions on the road and I looked at the country The mulberry trees were bare and the fields were brown There were wet dead leaves on the road from the rows of bare trees and men were working on the road tamping stone in the ruts from piles of crushed stone along the side of the road between the trees We saw the town with a mist over it that cut off the mountains We crossed the river and I saw that it was running high It had been raining in the mountains We came into the town past the factories and then the houses and villas and I saw that many more houses had been hit On a narrow street we passed a British Red Cross ambulance The driver wore a cap and his face was thin and very tanned I did not know him I got down from the camion in the big square in front of the Town Mayor s house the driver handed down my rucksack and I put it on and swung on the two musettes and walked to our villa It did not feel like a homecoming Lanham p 42 3 conjuctions 8 clauses complex sentences hypotaxis cateoory based on sentence structure My Lords I feel that I owe some apology to your lordships for standing in the way of any noble lords who wish to address you but after much deliberation and after consulting with several of my noble friends on both sides of the House it did appear to us as I am sure it will to your lordships desirable on many grounds that the debate should be brought to a close this night and I thought I could not better contribute to that end than by taking the present opportunity of addressing you Indeed I had scarcely any choice I am urged on by the anxiety I feel on this mighty subject which is so great that I should hardly have been able to delay the expression of my opinion much longer if I had I feel assured that I must have lost the power to address you This solicitude is not I can assure your lordships diminished by my recollection of the great talents and brilliant exertions of those by whom I have been preceded in the discussion and the consciousness of the difficulties with which I have to contend in following such men It is a deep sense of these difficulties that induces me to call for your patient indulgence For although not unused to meet public bodies nay constantly in the habit during many years of presenting myself before great assemblies of various kinds yet I do solemnly assure you that I never until this moment felt what deep responsibility may rest on a member of the legislature in addressing either of its houses