Politeness-Logo Brown & Levinson 1987: 'Face'

Politeness-Logo 'face'

English folk term; in Anlehnung an Goffman 1967

We make the following assumptions: that all competent adult members of a society have (and know each other to have)

  1. 'face', the public self-image that every member wants to claim for himself, consisting in two related aspects:
     
    1. Brwon & Levison: neg.-face negative face: the basic claim to territories, personal preserves, rights to non-distraction - i.e. to freedom of action and freedom from imposition
       
    2. Brwon & Levison: pos.-face positive face: the positive consistent self-image or 'personality' (crucially including the desire that this self-image be appreciated and approved of) claimed by interactants
       
  2. certain rational capacities, in particular consistent modes of reasoning from ends to the means that will achieve those ends. (p. 61)

 

Brwon & Levison: neg.-face negative face:

the want of every 'competent adult member' that his action be unimpeded by others

Brwon & Levison: pos.-face positive face:

the want of every member that his wants be desirable to at least some others (p. 62)

Literatur

Brown, Penelope & Levinson, Stephen (1987) Politeness: Some Universals in Language Usage. Cambridge u.a.: Cambridge University Press
Goffman, Erving (1967) Interaction Ritual: Essays on Face to Face Behavior. New York: Garden City
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