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On face-work; an analysis of ritual elements in social interaction.

Erving Goffman
- 01 Aug 1955 - 
- Vol. 18, Iss: 3, pp 213-231
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This article is published in Psychiatry MMC.The article was published on 1955-08-01. It has received 2287 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Social relation & Personality disorders.

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The role of face in the decision not to negotiate

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed a conceptual model of the role of one of those social costs in the decision of whether to negotiate or not to negotiate, and found that people are less likely to negotiate in situations that they recognize are potentially negotiable.
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The Supervisory Relationship of Chinese Social Workers in Hong Kong

TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors explored the supervisory relationship of social workers in the Chinese cultural context of Hong Kong and found that the supervisor-supervisee relationship is not only organizational and professional but also cultural and personal.
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Audience Perceptions of Politeness and Advocacy Skills in the 2000 and 2004 Presidential Debates

TL;DR: The authors conducted studies of the 2000 and 2004 presidential debates to determine the extent to which audience members relied on constructs of politeness or advocacy skills to evaluate candidates, and found that audiences relied on politeness and advocacy skills more than politeness.
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The principles of communicative language use

TL;DR: The paper aims to overview some typical principles of communicative language use in a cognitive pragmatic approach applying a reductionist method to demonstrate that the well-known principles can be reduced to a very general rationality (economy) principle.
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Home is where the heart is? Organizing women’s work and domesticity at Christmas

TL;DR: The authors argue that home-work is a productive retreat from commercial-work, and that the home relates to domesticity and rituals in paradoxical ways and a public/private divide has been central to critical interpretations of women's subordination in work and leisure spaces.