Table of Contents

1. Face and interaction (Michael Haugh) Part I: Face in interaction 2. Face as emergent in interpersonal communication: An alternative to Goffman (Robert B. Arundale, University of Alaska) 3. How to get rid of a telemarking agent? Facework strategies in an intercultural service call (Rosina Marquez-Reiter, University of Surrey) 4. Analysing Japanese 'face-in-interaction': insights from intercultural business meetings (Michael Haugh and Yasuhisa Watanabe, Queensland University of Technology) 5. That's a mythA": Linguistic avoidance as face-saving strategy in broadcast interviews (Eric Anchimbe, University of Bayreuth) 6. Two Sides of the same coin: How the notion of 'face' is encoded in Persian communication (Sofia A. Koutlaki ) Part II: Face, identity and self 7. Face, identity and interactional goals (Helen Spencer-Oatey, University of Warwick) 8. Evoking face in self and other presentation in Turkish (A ukriye Ruhi, Middle East Technical University, Turkey) 9. Face and self in Chinese communication (Gao Ge, San Jose State University) 10. Face, politeness and interpersonal variables: implications for language production and comprehension (Thomas Holtgraves, Ball State University) 11. In the face of the other: Between Goffman and Levinas (Alexander Kozin, Freie Universitat Berlin) Part III: Face, norms and society 12. Facework collision in intercultural communication (Stella Ting-Toomey, California State University at Fullerton) 13. Face in the holistic and relativistic society (Tae-Seop Lim, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) 14. Finding face between gemeinschaft and gesellschaft: Greek perceptions of the in-group (Marina Terkourafi, University of Illinois) 15. Significance of 'face' and politeness in social interaction as revealed through Thai 'face' idioms (Margaret Ukosakul, Payap University, Thailand) 16. Facing the future: some reflections (Francesca Bargiela-Chiappini)

About the Author

Francesca Bargiela-Chiappini is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Politeness Research and has published articles on face and politeness and politeness in the workplace. Michael Haugh is a lecturer in the School of Languages and Linguistics at Griffith University. He has published work on the emic notion of 'face' in Japanese and the relationship between 'face' and 'politeness' in the Journal of Pragmatics, Multilingua, and Intercultural Pragmatics as well in Asian Business Discourse(s).

Reviews

'Bargiela-Chiappini and Haugh do the field a valuable service by putting together a diverse collection of papers that, while built upon these foundational authors, represent current trends and developments in research on face in social interaction.'
Journal of Sociolinguistics, 2013

'The collection is inspirational and innovative in several senses.'
Language in Society 41, 2012

'...the book is a trendsetting publication on the study of politeness and face.'
Jun Ohashi, Asia Institute, The University of Melbourne, Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, issue 34, 2 (2011)

'A number of features worthy of note in this volume are as follows. First, it is of methodological significance. Second, the most salient feature of the volume is its endeavor in new perspectives or new orientations to face and facework. Third, the volume manifests different discourse systems by putting emphasis on the culture-specifity of face. Fourth, it is dynamic in that it keeps abreast of the developments in the field and challenges the traditional through influential theories of face by Goffman and Brown and Levinson by advocating social constructionism, ethnomethodology and communication studies of face. Finally, this volume's multi-disciplinary characteristics are remarkable. ...the volume as an important original intellectual inquiry is a big step forward in studies of face(work) and will surely inspire further advances in this field.'
Zhao Ming, China University of Mining & Technology, Discourse and Communication 5 (3), 2011

'This is a well-conceptualized edited volume that consists of insightful theoretical and empirical contributions on face, facework, and politeness approached from various interdisciplinary perspectives and methodological frameworks. The rigorous analysis of face and broad scope of this volume will make it an essential tool for researchers, teachers, and students of pragmatics and discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, sociology, and intercultural communication.'
César Félix-Brasdefer, Associate Professor, Research Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, Indiana University

'A fascinating collection of research that contests not only the construct of “face”, but also the nature of human interaction. With excellent theoretical discussion and empirical studies, this volume offers insightful analysis and is original in terms of conception and methodology: a great resource for using the notion of “face” to study social interaction, cross-cultural and intercultural communication.'
Yuling Pan, U.S. Census Bureau

'The volume adopts interdisciplinary approaches to the understanding of the notion of face at three interdependent levels - the individual, interactional and socio-cultural, and thus establishes links between individual interactions (the micro) and broader socio-cultural expectations (the macro). As a result, it provides us with a wealth of studies on 'face', showing that the insights yielded from multi-dimensions cannot be captured by any single theoretical perspective.'
Jing Chen, Zhejiang University, Discourse Studies 2010 12(5)

'This excellent volume, as its title exemplifies, represents a small but growing trend in which the study of face and facework is making a bid for genuine independence.

The book contains 16 contributions, 14 from an impressively multicultural collection of scholars bracketed by one each from the two editors. These vary in quality, in a range from good to extremely good. This overall high standard is one reason why this is such a valuable volume and, I predict, will become close to indispensable for scholars of interpersonal communication. Another is the above-discussed topical shift in focus towards face which it represents. A third is the exciting variety of methodologies, approaches and datasets which are to be found within it.'
Jim O'Driscoll, University of Huddersfield, Journal of Politeness Research 7 (2011)

'Overall, the book has lived up to its expectations and is highly recommended. … there seems to be a potential for ‘face studies’ to emerge as a separate specialisation and this book may well be one of the trendsetters in this direction.'
Journal of Intercultural Studies, 33 (4), 2012