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Publication details [#57472]

Arundale, Robert B. 2013. Face as a research focus in interpersonal pragmatics: Relational and emic perspectives. Journal of Pragmatics 58 (1) : 108–120.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

conceptualization | face maintenance | politeness | pragmatics | social relationship

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper discusses Face Constituting Theory's (FCT) conceptualization of face apart from politeness, offering an interactional and relational comprehension of face, whilst FCT main concepts' analysis reveals how this second order, culture-general elucidation accommodates the first order (Japanese) emic face conceptualization.