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Publication details [#64396]

Labben, Afef. 2018. Face and identity in interaction: A focus on Tunisian Arabic. Journal of Pragmatics 128 : 67–81.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

conceptualization | face maintenance | identity negotiation | interaction | language and culture

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

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Annotation

This paper explores face and identity in Tunisian Arabic interactions. It displays that findings about folk conceptualizations of face in Tunisian culture could be expanded to face in interaction and displays that face and identity are interconnected in Tunisian culture.