Framing oneself as host to a visitor enables public-space encounters

Evidence

The important thing to note here is that despite the not infrequent concern of females with keeping themselves aloof from surrounding males, this young woman was quite willing to engage the older man in conversation. With the words, “This is my favorite place,” he made it very clear that he was the host and she the visitor. — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 1007

Categorization

• XREF: The host/visitor frame parallels Simmel’s analysis of how spatial possession legitimizes approach among strangers — exactly the reader’s cross-reading purpose. — connects to: Protocol for entering others’ territory is to wait at the edge and ask permission — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom,…, 760