Face and Face Practices in Chinese Talk-in-Interaction

ISBN-13: 9781781791349 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 224 str.

Wei-Lin Melody Chang

Opis

This book addresses the knowledge-gap in the field by focusing on the importance of emic conceptualizations (face1) in theorizing face. Existing research on face has tended to rely on the etic perspective (face2) in theorizing and conceptualizing face.