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It is an enduring theme of humanity that people are concerned about what others think of them. The notion of face has thus become firmly established as a means of explaining various social phenomena in a range of fields within the social sciences, including anthropology, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, and psychology. Yet face has also become increasingly entrenched in the literature as a kind of pre-existing sociocultural construct.This book offers an alternative in focusing on the ways in which face is both constituted in and constitutive of social interaction, and its relationship to self, identity and broader sociocultural expectations. There are three main themes explored in this volume. Part I, 'Face in interaction', encompasses contributions that deal with face as it emerges in interaction in various institutional and non-institutional settings. In Part II, the relationship between self, identity and face is investigated in the context of interpersonal communication. The final part considers various approaches to establishing links between individual interactions (the so-called micro) and broader sociocultural expectations or 'norms' that interactants bring into interactions (the so-called macro).

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Sociology & anthropology Anthropology

• Full title: Face, Communication and Social Interaction
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 256
• EAN: 9781845532918
• ISBN: 1845532910
• ID: 05098128
• Publisher: Equinox Publishing Ltd
• Weight: 662 g
• Dimensions: 244 × 168 × 24 mm
• Date of publishing: 15. March 2009

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