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  • ...rer's face]], and they may threaten either [[positive face]] or [[negative face]]. ...TAs which threaten the hearer’s face and FTAs which threaten the speaker’s face.
    4 KB (595 words) - 16:12, 29 June 2014
  • ...lso watch the speaker's face. Visual information is provided by the entire face (mouth, tongue, teeth, jaw, eyebrows), hence "speechreading" is a more appr
    747 bytes (106 words) - 13:18, 9 June 2009
  • ...egy''' is a strategy that is used to prevent a violation of the hearer's [[face]]. ...s that he/she expresses an utterance while trying to counteract a possible face damage of the hearer. This way, the person uses politeness to soften the FT
    3 KB (455 words) - 21:31, 28 September 2009
  • ...95: 297). These findings support the fact that the concepts of politeness, face, maintaining social relationship as well as humor are to be seen in close c ...holding the door.'' (uttered to a person who just slammed the door in your face)
    13 KB (1,992 words) - 20:32, 4 July 2014
  • ...and ethnically mixed regions, where languages are learned through face-to-face interaction, the use of languages is more balanced because people have equa
    18 KB (2,684 words) - 16:51, 22 May 2013