The aim of this paper is to examine Erving Goffman's basic view of "context" in his analysis of face-to-face interaction. The arguments are as follows.
(l)According to Goffman, people in "social situation" take up "alignments"each other, which constitute various modes of access to them. Here is his basic view of "context", that is, modes of mutual alignments.
(2)In the case of "encounters", mutual alignments are basically taken up in accordance with officially accredited "frames." An official frame has four chief functions in this respect ;
　l.The exclusive function or the function as a "rule of irrelevance."
　2. The function as a "schema of expression and interpretation."
　3. The transformative function or the function as a "transformation rule."
　4. The organization of "involvement."
(3)The basic modes of mutual alignments in accordance with official frames can be changed and differentiated in at least four ways ;
　a)Allocation of involvement in relation to multiple channels of an encounter.
　b) "Downkeying" and "upkeying."
　c) "Fabrication. "
　d) "Flooding out" in relation to "interation tension."
(4)The relationship between an encounter and the social structure can be considered as follows. First, the official frame determines which social-structural factors are officially qualified to guide the encounter. Second, officially excluded social-structural factors "typically" influence the modes of involvement of participants. Hence, social-structural factors influence the stability and vulnerability of an official frame. Here is one of the links between local contexts of interaction and the social structure.

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