What is a bystander?

A bystander is a person in a participant role of audience or unratified participant.

• What is a participant role?

Levinson 1983 68–69, 91

Goffman 1976 260

Context for this page:

• Concept module: bystander
• In overview module: Glossary (Linguistics): B
• In modular book: Glossary of linguistic terms, by Eugene E. Loos (general editor), Susan Anderson (editor), Dwight H., Day, Jr. (editor), Paul C. Jordan (editor), and J. Douglas Wingate (editor)
• In bookshelf: Linguistics

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