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Publication details [#54989]

Hatfield, Hunter and Jee-Won Hahn. 2011. Group face in Korea and the United States: Taking responsibility for the individual and the group. Multilingua 30 (1) : 25–70.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
De Gruyter

Annotation

This article explores face management of a third party, who is neither the speaker nor the hearer, through interactional apology behavior in Korea and the United States, in situations where a family member of the speaker possibly insults another individual. As opposed to the typical collectivist/individualist distinction, both Koreans and Americans excused, overall, in similar situations, especially when the speaker was present. The factors did function differently within each nation, however.