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Publication details [#14001]

Kadt, Elizabeth de. 1998. The concept of face and its applicability to the Zulu language. Journal of Pragmatics 29 (2) : 173–191.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
ISBN
0378-2166

Annotation

This article first reconsiders some theoretical aspects of the concept of face (Goffman's usage of the concept, and the term 'collectivist' as applied to a wide range of non-Western societies) and it then applies this notion to the Bantu language Zulu. Mutual face is shown to be maintained in Zulu interaction by a wide range of verbal, non-verbal and discourse politeness strategies.