Essays on Facework

Face and facework are closely connected with the self-image of people being displayed when communicating with other people. The theory itself was first proposed to understand the way different cultures react to some conflict situation. It is important to mention that the term face is used here more in the metaphorical sense than in its direct meaning. Thus, it relates to the image people usually display in public. The term facework stands for communicative behaviors. According to the theory, the difference in the ways people react to conflict depends on the conflict issue itself, relations between people and their ...

Business Resolution and Mediation

Part I: Business Resolution and Mediation

- Face Management Face Management Theory is a theory first developed and mentioned by Stella Toomey in 1985. Basically, the premise is that there are ways how different members of a particular organization can communicate and coordinate well even with the presence of barriers such as cultural differences which frequently cause misunderstandings and conflicts in the workplace. There are three instances where facework could be at play: before, during, and after a usually conflicting situation. Preventive facework comes into play before a certain situation; corrective facework comes into play during a situation; restorative comes into play ...

Analysis of Spoken Discourse in the Film If Only

Abstract Spoken discourse focuses on the words the speakers say and how these are spoken to convey a message. The film If Only, presents a series of conversations that revealed the events of the story. This study transcribes three major scenes to identify the frequency of key terms as mentioned by the characters. The verbal data were then segmented and coded for analysis. The theory of face-work was used as the conceptual framework of the study and the conversations were examined to identify how characters saved their face and protect the face of the persons they are having the conversation ...