Panel on “Face, culture and social interaction”

 

Organisers: Michael Haugh (Griffith University) and Francesca Bargiela-Chiappini (Nottingham Trent University)

 

Description

The notion of face has been used to explain various social phenomena by a wide range of social science researchers, including social anthropologists, pragmalinguists, sociolinguists, sociologists and psychologists. Yet while face has become seemingly indispensable in discussions of various aspects of social interactions, face has also become increasingly entrenched in the literature as a kind of pre-existing sociocultural construct, with little acknowledgement of the fact that face itself emerges through social interaction. This panel focuses on the ways in which face is jointly constructed and shared through various social networks, including ‘cultures’, with a particular emphasis on exploring new theoretical approaches to analysing face as it arises in naturally-occurring interactions.

 

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Papers

1. Michael Haugh (Griffith University)

            Introduction: Face, culture and social interaction

 

2. Karen Grainger, Sara Mills and Mandla Sibanda (Sheffield Hallam University):

The Southern African concept of ‘face’ and its relevance to intercultural interaction

 

3. Marina Terkourafi (University of Illinois):

Bridging micro and macro notions of face: a Greek case-study

 

4. ªükriye Ruhi (Middle East Technical University):

Where Aspects of Self and Face (do not) Surface in Interaction

 

5. Derya Agis (The American University of Cyprus, Kyrenia)

Saving or losing face with the Judeo-Spanish, Turkish, and Turkish Cypriot idioms and proverbs with the organ of face

 

6. Hiromasa Tanaka and Xiao Rui Zhang (Meisei University):

Construction of face in Japanese business settings

 

7. Naomi Geyer (University of Wisconsin-Madison):

Facework and event description in Japanese multi-party discourse

 

8. Yasuhisa Watanabe (Queensland University of Technology):

Conflict of power & face, or is it just a difference in culture? : How does a novice claim his Face to climb the corporate ladder in the second language?

 

9. Ewa Jakubowska (University of Silesia):

Cultural variability in face interpretation and management

 

10. Rosina Márquez Reiter (University of Surrey):

How to get rid of a telemarketing agent? Face-work strategies in an intercultural service call

 

Panel discussant/chair:

Francesca Bargiela-Chiappini (Nottingham Trent University)