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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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Stigma in the line of face: Self‐disclosure of patients' HIV status to health care providers
TL;DR: Using Goffman's (1963, 1967) notions of face and stigma, the major influential factors prompting the act of disclosure of HIV, the act itself, and the effect that act appears to have had on the patient/provider relationship are described.
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A Theory of Humor in Interaction
TL;DR: For instance, this article found that women and men tell different kinds of stories illustrating different types of humor; the performance of a joke follows the pattern for storytelling generally; the major difference consists in the expectation of laughter at the conclusion.
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Maintaining face in the presentation of depression: constraining the therapeutic potential of the consultation
TL;DR: The concerns of patients diagnosed with depression to preserve ‘face’ in social and medical encounters are discussed, from a qualitative study of patient and GP accounts of the presentation, recognition and treatment of depression.
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Communities of complicity: Notes on state formation and local sociality in rural China
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors deal with the tension in rural China between vernacular practice in local sociality and official representations related to processes of state formation and with the ways in which this tension is revealed and concealed through gestures of embarrassment, irony, and cynicism.