Face: (New) Facets of a Sociopragmatic Concept

Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-90-04-69484-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 24, 244 Seiten, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 513 g

Reihe: Studies in Pragmatics

Face has become a key-concept in current socio-pragmatics. By virtue of its metaphorical force, it enables researchers to explain universal processes of human communication mostly reflected in language use. Yet being an English construct, in intercultural comparison, face provokes critical debates putting in doubt namely its relation to im/politeness-theories. The 8 articles in this volume tie on these issues putting face under linguistic scrutiny: With different approaches and methods, some re-consider the notion of face comparing labels and expressions in lingua-cultures other than English; others explore the verbal enactment of face in selected speech acts, conversational moves and interactional settings.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Held, Gudrun

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword

List of Figures

Contributors

1 Introduction: The concept of face revisited

Gudrun Held

Part1 Face: a metaphorical notion under intercultural scrutiny

2 Roman notions of face: An analysis of the Latin persona

Luis Unceta Gómez

3 Amour-propre “self-love” and flattery: “Face” pessimism in late-modern French sources

Annick Paternoster

4 Remarks on face as a folk concept in Romanian

Mihaela Constantinescu

5 A value-construct approach to face expressions in Chinese and Japanese Linguacultures

Xiao Qi and Zhou Ling

Part2 Face in interaction or verbal faces of face

6 From negative to positive face: Apologizing in the history of Italian

Chiara Fedriani and Chiara Ghezzi

7 Face in Italian compliments

Giovanna Alfonzetti

8 Face(s) and facework(s) in a corpus of Italian and German compliments

Marina Castagneto and Miriam Ravetto

9 “Facework Night”: Representations of Self and Other(s) in the Presidential Concession Speech

Francesca Santulli

Afterword: Some thoughts on face1 and face2

Jim O’Driscoll

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Gudrun Held, Ph.D., is a retired Professor of Italian and French Linguistics at the Department of Romance Philology, University of Salzburg (Austria). Her research draws on linguistic pragmatics, communication theory and multimodal media textuality under synchronic and diachronic viewpoints. Particularly concerned with questions of linguistic politeness in Romance lingua-cultures, she has published a monograph (Narr, 1995), several edited volumes and a series of articles in Manuals and Scientific Journals.