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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.

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Author:   Gudrun Held
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   24
Weight:   0.551kg
ISBN:  

9789004694842

ISBN 10:   9004694846
Pages:   244
Publication Date:   06 December 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of 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

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Gudrun Held, Ph.D., is a retired Professor of Italian and French Linguistics at the Department of Romance Philology, University of Salzburg (Austria). Her research draws on linguistic pragmatics, communication theory and multimodal media textuality under synchronic and diachronic viewpoints. Particularly concerned with questions of linguistic politeness in Romance lingua-cultures, she has published a monograph (Narr, 1995), several edited volumes and a series of articles in Manuals and Scientific Journals.

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