Items for "face-enhancing act"

What's in an FTA? Reflections on a chance meeting with Claudine

This paper is about face-threatening acts (FTAs). It upholds the usefulness of the general concept as first introduced by Brown and Levinson but presents a different view of (1) what an FTA is and how it arises and (2) how to gauge the relative severity of one...

Keywords: face, Facework, face-threatening act, FTA, face-enhancing act, Interaction