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On face-work; an analysis of ritual elements in social interaction.
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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.read more
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Looking Out for Number One: Euphemism and Face
TL;DR: The authors investigated the influence of face motives on euphemism use and found that communicators are inclined to use euphemisms more for self-presentational purposes than out of concern for their addressees' sensibilities.
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“I’ve said I’m sorry, haven’t I?” A study of the identity implications and constraints that apologies create for their recipients
TL;DR: In a follow-up study as discussed by the authors, the same authors examined the impact of the apology status on the actor's acceptance or rejection of an apology, and found that most positive views of the actor result when the apology is accepted; least positive views are associated with their rejection.
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Evidentiality and Politeness in Japanese
TL;DR: This article investigated the role of epistemic markers in Japanese language socialization, focusing on how epistemic marker functions to reduce speaker responsibility in Japanese discourse, such as sentence-final particles, adverbials, and hedges.
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Corporate Brand Identity Co-creation in Business-to-business Contexts
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used a case study method with multiple cases, involving five small and medium sized business-to-business (B2B) corporate brands, to better understand the process of corporate brand identity co-creation.
Facework as a Chinese Conflict-Preventive Mechanism -- A Cultural/ Discourse Analysis
TL;DR: In this article, a micro-interpretation of a naturally occurring interactive episode among a group of Chinese professors and students in the United States is presented, and the unique Chinese perspective of conflict and conflict prevention is analyzed on the basis of this microinterpretation.