Face, Communication and Social Interaction - Francesca Bargiela-Chiappini

Face, Communication and Social Interaction - Francesca Bargiela-Chiappini

5. “ That’s a myth”: Linguistic avoidance as a political face-saving strategy in broadcast interviews

Face, Communication and Social Interaction - Francesca Bargiela-Chiappini

Eric Anchimbe
University of Bayreuth
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This paper follows on the heels of many others to reiterate that face within face-to-face communication, contrary to Brown and Levinson’s (1987) premise that social relations are some sort of a natural state of affairs to which interlocutors respond (Chilton, 1990: 201), is not constructed according to fixed socio-cultural or natural states of static relations but is constructed and re constructed in a dynamic and spontaneous way determined by the type of social interaction interlocutors are involved in. The paper tries to show that face-saving, as explained by Brown and Levinson (1987) and their followers, and political face-saving are different phenomena.

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Anchimbe, Erick. 5. “ That’s a myth”: Linguistic avoidance as a political face-saving strategy in broadcast interviews. Face, Communication and Social Interaction. Equinox eBooks Publishing, United Kingdom. p. 96 - 114 May 2009. ISBN 9781845539139. https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/view-chapter/?id=19068. Date accessed: 29 Mar 2024 doi: 10.1558/equinox.19068. May 2009

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