Full Description
Face has become a key-concept in current socio-pragmatics. By virtue of its metaphorical force, it enables researchers to explain universal processes of human communication mostly reflected in language use. Yet being an English construct, in intercultural comparison, face provokes critical debates putting in doubt namely its relation to im/politeness-theories. The 8 articles in this volume tie on these issues putting face under linguistic scrutiny: With different approaches and methods, some re-consider the notion of face comparing labels and expressions in lingua-cultures other than English; others explore the verbal enactment of face in selected speech acts, conversational moves and interactional settings.
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
