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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).
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TL;DR: This article applied politeness theory to the task of predicting receivers' responses to affectionate messages from adult platonic friends, finding a curvilinear relationship between the directness of affectionate message and receivers' intentions to reciprocate them, with the most direct and most indirect messages being most likely to be reciprocated.
Abstract: Although expressions of affection may be regarded as a form of support between relational partners, affectionate communication has the potential also to be threatening to senders’ and receivers’ face needs, especially in nonromantic relationships. On the premise that a given communicative act can support positive face needs while simultaneously threatening negative face needs, this study applied politeness theory to the task of predicting receivers’ responses to affectionate messages from adult platonic friends. Results indicated that direct, unequivocal affectionate messages were the most supportive of positive face and also the most threatening to negative face, while indirect, equivocal messages supported positive face and threatened negative face the least. A curvilinear relationship emerged between the directness of affectionate messages and receivers’ intentions to reciprocate them, with the most direct and most indirect messages being most likely to be reciprocated. The implications of these findin...
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01 Jan 2003
TL;DR: The translation process in less common contexts: cultural, religious, even the translation of pain is perhaps the earliest task of the human brain this article, but translation in a broader sense-seeing strangeness and incorporating it into one's understanding-is perhaps the early task of human brain.
Abstract: To most people, translation means making the words of one language understandable in another; but translation in a broader sense-seeing strangeness and incorporating it into one's understanding-is perhaps the earliest task of the human brain. This book illustrates the translation process in less-common contexts: cultural, religious, even the translation of pain. Its original contributions seek to trace human understanding of the self, of the other, and of the stranger by discovering how we bridge gaps within or between semiotic systems. "Translation and Ethnography" focuses on issues that arise when we attempt to make significant thematic or symbolic elements of one culture meaningful in terms of another. Its chapters cover a wide range of topics, all stressing the interpretive practices that enable the approximation of meaning: the role of differential power, of language and so-called world view, and of translation itself as a metaphor of many contemporary cross-cultural processes. The topics covered here represent a global sample of translation, ranging from Papua New Guinea to South America to Europe. Some of the issues addressed include postcolonial translation/transculturation from the perspective of colonized languages, as in the Mexican Zapatista movement; mis-translations of Amerindian conceptions and practices in the Amazon, illustrating the subversive potential of anthropology as a science of translation; Ethiopian oracles translating divine messages for the interpretation of believers; and dreams and clowns as translation media among the Gamk of Sudan. Anthropologists have long been accustomed to handling translation chains; in this book they open their diaries and show the steps they take toward knowledge. "Translation and Ethnography" raises issues that will shake up the most obdurate, objectivist translators and stimulate scholars in sociolinguistics, communication, ethnography, and other fields who face the challenges of conveying meaning across human boundaries.
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TL;DR: The authors compared emic understandings of attentiveness and the related notions of empathy and anticipatory inference in Japanese and Taiwanese Mandarin Chinese and found that participants evaluated these practices positively and in some cases linked them to politeness concerns, in other instances they evaluated them negatively.
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TL;DR: Jamaican LGBTI youth face tragic disparities, the level of which warrants immediate legislative attention as discussed by the authors, which has been characterized as one of the most homophobic and transphobic societies in the world.
Abstract: Jamaican LGBTI youth face tragic disparities, the level of which warrants immediate legislative attention. Jamaica has been characterized as one of the most homophobic and transphobic societies glo...
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