Face, Communication and Social Interaction

Name: Face, Communication and Social Interaction
SKU: INR-9781845532918
Price: 72.00 USD
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SKU: INR-9781845532918 Category: All Books Tags: Anthropology, Intercultural Communication, Communication Studies, Social Interaction, Interpersonal Communication, Interpersonal Relations, Cultural & Social, Identity (psychology), Ingram, Sociology, Language Arts & Disciplines, General, Social Science, Social Psychology, Psychology

Description

It is an enduring theme of humanity that people are concerned about what others think of them. The notion of face has thus become firmly established as a means of explaining various social phenomena in a range of fields within the social sciences, including anthropology, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, and psychology. Yet face has also become increasingly entrenched in the literature as a kind of pre-existing sociocultural construct. This book offers an alternative in focusing on the ways in which face is both constituted in and constitutive of social interaction, and its relationship to self, identity and broader sociocultural expectations. There are three main themes explored in this volume. Part I, ‘Face in interaction’, encompasses contributions that deal with face as it emerges in interaction in various institutional and non-institutional settings. In Part II, the relationship between self, identity and face is investigated in the context of interpersonal communication. The final part considers various approaches to establishing links between individual interactions (the so-called micro) and broader sociocultural expectations or ‘norms’ that interactants bring into interactions (the so-called macro).

Editor: Bargiela-Chiappini, Francesca, Editor: Haugh, Michael

Topic: Sociology
Media: Book
ISBN: 1845532910
Language: English
Pages: 331