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dc.contributor.authorChang, Melody
dc.contributor.authorHaugh, Michael
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T15:00:01Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T15:00:01Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.date.modified2012-03-07T05:02:08Z
dc.identifier.issn03782166
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.pragma.2011.05.009
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/43362
dc.description.abstractFace threats are generally studied as either something to be avoided or reduced in politeness research, or as deliberate forms of aggression in impoliteness research. The notion of face threat itself,however, has remained largely dependent on the intuitive notion of threatening. In Face Constituting Theory (Arundale, Robert, 2010. Constituting face in conversation: face, facework and interactional achievement. Journal of Pragmatics 42, 2078-2105), an approach to theorising face threats is posited that goes beyond such pre-theoretical notions. The advantages of employing such an analytical framework is that interactional practices which are open to evaluation as face threatening can be explicated in a manner that is grounded in the perspective of the participants, yet the range of practices examined can be expanded beyond that encompassed by folk or first-order conceptualisations of face. In this paper examples of one such practice, namely, strategic embarrassment, where the speaker attempts to embarrass the addressee into doing what he or she wants by topicalising unmet expectations and thereby implying a mild reproach or complaint, is examined in the context of business interactions in Taiwan. The way in which this action is interactionally achieved coordinate with constituting evaluations of face threat is outlined before considering the implications of this analysis for politeness and impoliteness research more broadly.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
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dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherElsevier
dc.publisher.placeNetherlands
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom2948
dc.relation.ispartofpageto2963
dc.relation.ispartofissue12
dc.relation.ispartofjournalJournal of Pragmatics
dc.relation.ispartofvolume43
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchDiscourse and Pragmatics
dc.subject.fieldofresearchCognitive Sciences
dc.subject.fieldofresearchLinguistics
dc.subject.fieldofresearchPhilosophy
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode200403
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode1702
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode2004
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode2203
dc.titleStrategic embarrassment and face threatening in business interactions
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.facultyArts, Education & Law Group, School of Languages and Linguistics
gro.rights.copyright© 2011 Elsevier B.V.. This is the author-manuscript version of this paper. Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the journal's website for access to the definitive, published version.
gro.date.issued2011
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gro.griffith.authorChang, Melody
gro.griffith.authorHaugh, Michael B.


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