National Face and Facework in China’s Foreign Policy

مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

منو

" National Face and Facework in China’s Foreign Policy "
Maria Marakhovskaiia, Alan Partington

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1065666
Doc. No	:	LA109295
Call No	:	‭10.1163/21983534-00601004‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Alan Partington
	:	Maria Marakhovskaiia
Title & Author	:	National Face and Facework in China’s Foreign Policy [Article]\ Maria Marakhovskaiia, Alan Partington
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Bandung
Date	:	2019
Volume/ Issue Number	:	6/1
Page No	:	105–131
Abstract	:	The and socio-pragmatic theory of face was first devised through speculating on and observing the interaction of individuals. Later research has looked at the phenomenon of group-face (e.g. ). In this research we examine how face and facework theory can also be applied to communications made by state actors to the outside world, in other words, whether facework theories could also be applied to national face. To this end we compiled a corpus of all press conferences held by the Ministry of Chinese Foreign Affairs in 2016 and subjected it to quantitative and qualitative analysis, as well as comparative analysis with US White House press briefings. Chinese government statements were felt to be a promising genre partly because of the particularly intricate relations China has with its geographically close partners and neighbours and partly because of the supposed special importance accorded to face in Chinese culture (; ). The techniques we employ in the analyses derive from the field of corpus-assisted discourse studies (Partington, Duguid and Taylor 2013).
Descriptor	:	African Studies
Descriptor	:	American Studies
Descriptor	:	Asian Studies
Descriptor	:	comparative politeness studies
Descriptor	:	corpus-assisted discourse studies
Descriptor	:	facework
Descriptor	:	General
Descriptor	:	Latin America
Descriptor	:	Literature and Cultural Studies
Descriptor	:	politeness
Descriptor	:	Postcolonial Literature Culture
Descriptor	:	press briefings
Descriptor	:	press conferences
Descriptor	:	Social Sciences
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/21983534-00601004‬