Full Description
Face is a key-concept in current socio-pragmatics: as a metaphorical construct it enables researchers to explain social processes in human communication. Since these are mainly reflected in language use, face has also become a matter of linguistics. The 8 articles, mostly stemming from linguacultures other than English, explore both, different labels and expressions of face, and the verbal enactment of face in selected speech acts and communicative events.
Contents
Foreword
List of Figures
Contributors
1 Introduction: The concept of face revisited
Gudrun Held
Part1 Face: a metaphorical notion under intercultural scrutiny
2 Roman notions of face: An analysis of the Latin persona
Luis Unceta Gómez
3 Amour-propre "self-love" and flattery: "Face" pessimism in late-modern French sources
Annick Paternoster
4 Remarks on face as a folk concept in Romanian
Mihaela Constantinescu
5 A value-construct approach to face expressions in Chinese and Japanese Linguacultures
Xiao Qi and Zhou Ling
Part2 Face in interaction or verbal faces of face
6 From negative to positive face: Apologizing in the history of Italian
Chiara Fedriani and Chiara Ghezzi
7 Face in Italian compliments
Giovanna Alfonzetti
8 Face(s) and facework(s) in a corpus of Italian and German compliments
Marina Castagneto and Miriam Ravetto
9 "Facework Night": Representations of Self and Other(s) in the Presidential Concession Speech
Francesca Santulli
Afterword: Some thoughts on face1 and face2
Jim O'Driscoll
Index
