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however, such narrating selves are more salient and provide not secondary
symbolic resources - as in 'Cookie's Party' - but primary ones. The category
of audiential selves was used earlier to refer to the general standpoint taken
by recipients of talk in response to the mobilisation of narrating selves.
Audiential selves are generally receptive entities, their conversational function
being to appreciate - more specifically demonstrate their appreciation of -
such things as unfolding narrative (see Goffman 1974). Both sets of selves,
narrating and audiential, are central to the organisation and achievement of
'Tommy Fields' as a recognisable piece of sociability, and are invoked and
aligned with one another in the replayed setting to create what is cast as a
truly dramatic and unique event to which KPUP had access.
As images, the primary selves invoked in 'Tommy Fields' can be seen
to belong to the category of what was referred to earlier as affected selves,
that is, selves which display some heightened degree of emotion and affective
state. As in'Cookie's Party, there are moments in the talk were similar selves
are mobilised in order to signal solidarity and nuances of positive alignment.
Such moves do not however threaten the essential uniqueness of the selves
proffered by KP&RP but rather, support them.
Whereas inCookie's Party'the selves as both players and images
were essentially shared out across speakers, who drew on these as a type of
symbolic pool, inTommy Fields'there is more of an asymmetrical distribution
of selves. Generally, narrative selves are mobilised almost exclusively by
KP&LP, whilst audiential selves are mobilised similarly exclusively by RP&EP.
Further, due to their monopoly on narrating selves, KP&LP are able to claim
the lion's share of affective selfhood, although not exclusively so. This
asymmetrical distribution of available selves is one of the general
organisational features of this talk which adds to its essentially negative
skewing in terms of overall alignment.
The excerpt begins with RP&EP's closing comments on their account
of the Reeperbahn in Hamburg. Immediately following this in line 4, LP
introduces the pub 'Tommy Fields'. Even though RP notes that KP has
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