Face (sociological concept)

About: Face (sociological concept) is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 5171 publications have been published within this topic receiving 96109 citations. The topic is also known as: Lose face & Face (sociological concept).

“Are you my friend?”: Negotiating friendship in conversations between network marketers and their prospects

Abstract: Friendship is studied as a culturally and contextually embedded entity. Focusing on the interactions between network marketers and their prospects, this article proposes four key central elements through which participants make sense of themselves when their identities are in transgression and conflict. Instead of being essentialist, the four elements of friendship ‐ intimacy, control, trust, and positiveness ‐ are highly interactional and dynamic elements that can be negotiated by participants in a conversation. It is argued that Grice’s Cooperative Principle is valid, but this should be enhanced by participants’ specific culture and prior experience. The notion of “face” in politeness models should be expanded in light of its dynamic characteristics in interaction. (Discourse analysis, network marketing, identity, friendship, politeness, culture)*

The New Face of Political Cinema: Commitment in French Film since 1995

Abstract: audiences, Nacache suggests that they can render the critical function superfluous. She concludes that denunciations of popular films can be linked to defensive strategies on the part of critics concerned to preserve their positions of influence. Several of the essays in this collection foreground attempts to bring togetherwhat such protectionist criticismwould rather keep apart.WillHigbee, RaphaëlleMoine and François-Xavier Molia all identify a generic and geographical hybridity in French ‘superproductions’ like Les Rivières pourpres (Kassovitz, 2000) and Le Pacte des loups (Gans, 2001). Sarah Leahy and Deirdre Russell interrogate the blend of ‘high’ and ‘low’ culture that characterises films like Le Goût des autres (Jaoui, 2000) and Ma femme est une actrice (Attal, 2001). Meanwhile, Tim Palmer presents an eloquent case for Valeria BruniTedeschi’s Il est plus facile pour un chameau. . . (2003), which is said to achieve a particularly fertile balance between avant-garde idiosyncrasy and mainstream entertainment. That balance is also at issue in essays by Joseph McGonagle, Binita Mehta and Carrie Tarr, which examine the ways in which recent French films have used popular form to investigate questions of ethnicity and social marginality. Though it might seem obvious to look for sources of box-office appeal in the filmic text, Graeme Hayes reminds us that the economic realities of distribution and exhibition are exerting an ever greater influence on a film’s chances of reaching a large audience. For Hayes, the increased costs involved in getting a film onto cinema screens represent a serious threat to the survival of the independent French film. Nevertheless, as is evidenced by the range of work surveyed here, the broader French film industry remains in enviable good health. Vincendeau notes that popular French cinema has generally been seen to be ‘beyond the pale’ (p. 64) of serious study. As a result, its vital and continuing contribution to the industry’s well-being has, all too often, gone unnoticed. Of evident interest to students, researchers and the general reader alike, this collection goes some way towards redressing that imbalance.

Collaboration on Corpora for Regional and Social Analysis

Abstract: Compilers of corpora that document regional and social languages and varieties of languages have different needs and goals, and yet we also face common problems, and we should have an interest in collaboration. In this paper, we set forth our intention to begin such a collaboration. We begin by exploring the parameters of our various corpora. We then explore issues of access and analysis, whether public or private, whether for general audiences or for specialists. Finally, we assert that it is indeed possible, practical, and desirable for us to apply common methods to our common problems, and we propose specific recommendations.

"Glocalizing" Chinese higher Education: Groping for Stones to Cross the River

Abstract: Over two and one-half decades have passed since Deng Xiaoping proclaimed that Chinese education must face in “three directions”—toward modernization, the world, and the future. At that time leaders had yet to articulate the driving purpose of reform as the creation of a robust market integrated with the global economy. Today Chinese educators and policymakers use “globalization” rather than modernization to approximate the pedagogical and social means (including cultivating a citizenship capable of creativity, flexibility, independent thinking, and innovation) they believe will ensure China’s engagement in an international knowledge economy. In response, Chinese universities grapple with how to shape institutional frameworks that fit the social, political, economic, and intellectual contours of this evolving context. Most Chinese commentators have jumped on the globalization bandwagon, praising globalization for injecting into education a forward-looking “Olympic spirit.” Some, however, describe the impact of globalization on education more cautiously, using a Chinese proverb, “groping for stones to cross the river.” We