Face: (New) Facets of a Sociopragmatic Concept

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Face has become a key-concept in current socio-pragmatics. By virtue of its metaphorical force, it enables researchers to explain universal processes of human communication mostly reflected in language use. Yet being an English construct, in intercultural comparison, face provokes critical debates putting in doubt namely its relation to im/politeness-theories. The 8 articles in this volume tie on these issues putting face under linguistic scrutiny: With different approaches and methods, some re-consider the notion of face comparing labels and expressions in lingua-cultures other than English; others explore the verbal enactment of face in selected speech acts, conversational moves and interactional settings.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Brill
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 162mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 513g
• ISBN-13: 9789004694842
• ISBN-10: 9004694846
• Artikelnr.: 71252862

Autorenporträt

Gudrun Held, Ph.D., is a retired Professor of Italian and French Linguistics at the Department of Romance Philology, University of Salzburg (Austria). Her research draws on linguistic pragmatics, communication theory and multimodal media textuality under synchronic and diachronic viewpoints. Particularly concerned with questions of linguistic politeness in Romance lingua-cultures, she has published a monograph (Narr, 1995), several edited volumes and a series of articles in Manuals and Scientific Journals.