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7. Face, identity and interactional goals


 
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1. Title Title of document 7. Face, identity and interactional goals - Face, Communication and Social Interaction
 
2. Creator Author's name, affiliation, country Helen Spencer-Oatey; University of Warwick; United Kingdom
 
3. Subject Discipline(s) Linguistics; Communication
 
4. Subject Keyword(s) linguistics; communication; speech; pragmatics
 
5. Subject Subject classification P121-149 Science of language (Linguistics); P94.7 Interpersonal communication
 
6. Description Abstract The aim of this chapter is to demonstrate that the effective study of face needs to take an identity perspective that is action-oriented. This is important because it will help us understand the face concerns that emerge dynamically in interaction as significant to the interlocutors. Much work in face and politeness theory takes an a priori approach to face sensitivity. Brown and Levinson (1987), for example, argue that certain speech acts are intrinsically face-threatening to either the speaker or the hearer, and Leech (2005) maintains that some types of illocutionary goals, such as requests or criticism of a hearer, compete or are at odds with the social goal of maintaining good communicative relations. In this chapter, I argue that such an a priori approach ignores the dynamic aspect of people’s face sensitivities. Furthermore, much work in face and politeness theory has focused on the face concerns of the hearer and has paid less attention to those of the speaker. In this chapter, I argue that a speaker’s own face concerns may emerge as crucially important in authentic interaction, and that a speaker’s self-presentational concerns thus need to be incorporated into the study of face and given equal weighting to those of the hearer.
 
7. Publisher Organizing agency, location Equinox Publishing Ltd
 
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9. Date (YYYY-MM-DD) 01-May-2009
 
10. Type Status & genre Peer-reviewed Article
 
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12. Format File format PDF
 
13. Identifier Uniform Resource Identifier https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/books/article/view/19070
 
14. Identifier Digital Object Identifier 10.1558/equinox.19070
 
15. Source Journal/conference title; vol., no. (year) Equinox eBooks Publishing; Face, Communication and Social Interaction
 
16. Language English=en en
 
18. Coverage Geo-spatial location, chronological period, research sample (gender, age, etc.) global
 
19. Rights Copyright and permissions Copyright 2014 Equinox Publishing Ltd