On Face-Work An Analysis of Ritual Elements in Social Interaction
On Face-Work An Analysis of Ritual Elements in Social Interaction
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DOI:
10.1080/00332747.1955.11023008
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发表时间:
1955-08-01
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影响因子:
2.4
通讯作者:
Goffman, Erving
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作者:
Goffman, Erving
EVERY PERSON lives in a world of social encounters, involving him either in face-to-face or mediated contact with other participants. In each of these contacts, he tends to act out what is sometimes called a line-that is, a pattern of verbal and nonverbal acts by which he expresses his view of the situation and through this his evaluation of the participants, especially himself. Regardless of whether a person intends to take a line, he will find that he has done so in effect. The other participants will assume that he has more or less willfully taken a stand, so that if he is to deal with their response to him he must take into consideration the impression they have possibly formed of him.The term face may be defined as the positive social value a person effectively claims for himself by the line others assume he has taken during a particular contact. 1 Face is an image of self delineated in terms of approved social attributes-albeit an image that others may share, as when a person makes a good showing for his profession or religion by making a good showing for himself.