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Items for "Facework"

Face as relational and interactional: A communication framework for research on face, facework, and politeness

In a recent re-examination of face as related to politeness, Bargiela-Chiappini (2003: 1463) argues for examining “cultural conceptualizations of the social self and its relationship to others as an alternative and possibly more fruitful way of studying the relevance and dynamics of ‘face’ and ‘facework’ in interpersonal contacts”...

Keywords: face, Facework, relationship, Interaction, Communication, politeness

07/2006 | Journal of Politeness Research. Language, Behaviour, Culture, Walter de Gruyter
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

07/2007 | Journal of Politeness Research. Language, Behaviour, Culture, Walter de Gruyter
Politeness Theory and Relational Work

In this paper we briefly revisit politeness research influenced by Brown and Levinson's (1987) politeness theory...

Keywords: politeness, Impoliteness, face, relational work, Facework

01/2005 | Journal of Politeness Research. Language, Behaviour, Culture, Walter de Gruyter