FACE: (New) Facets of a Sociopragmatic Concept

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.

Foreword

List of Figures

Contributors



1 Introduction: The concept of face revisited

 Gudrun Held



Part1 Face: a metaphorical notion under intercultural scrutiny



2 Roman notions of face: An analysis of the Latin persona

 Luis Unceta Gómez



3 Amour-propre “self-love” and flattery: “Face” pessimism in late-modern French sources

 Annick Paternoster



4 Remarks on face as a folk concept in Romanian

 Mihaela Constantinescu



5 A value-construct approach to face expressions in Chinese and Japanese Linguacultures

 Xiao Qi and Zhou Ling



Part2 Face in interaction or verbal faces of face



6 From negative to positive face: Apologizing in the history of Italian

 Chiara Fedriani and Chiara Ghezzi



7 Face in Italian compliments

 Giovanna Alfonzetti



8 Face(s) and facework(s) in a corpus of Italian and German compliments

 Marina Castagneto and Miriam Ravetto



9 “Facework Night”: Representations of Self and Other(s) in the Presidential Concession Speech

 Francesca Santulli



Afterword: Some thoughts on face1 and face2

 Jim O’Driscoll



Index