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Publication details [#54872]

Underwood, Kate. 2011. Facework as self-heroicisation: A case study of three elderly women. Journal of Pragmatics 43 (8) : 2215–2242.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

age | dyadic interaction | face maintenance | self-representation | women's language

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

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Annotation

This study of facework in elderly female friends' dyads contests the tendency to consider older adults’ facework as mainly motivated by alleviation of face threat, permitting facework to be regarded as a mutually profitable, positive and pro-active process.