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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"face concerns"”.
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Social Support Seeking Processes in Japan and the United States: A Multi-layered Approach
… between Japan and the United States by applying face negotiation theory (FNT). The application of FNT contributed to understanding social support seeking processes by utilizing such concepts as national cultures, and horizontal-vertical individualism and collectivism (I-C) as cultural variables, …
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A CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON AND EXAMINATION OF WORKPLACE BULLYING IN SINGAPORE AND THE UNITED STATES
… this study assessed the extent to which face concerns (self-face and other-face) relate to the use of coping strategies. A questionnaire was administered to employees from Singapore and the United States. In order to participate in this study, participants had to have previous working …
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A Cross-national Study: Using Face-Negotiation Theory to Understand Gender, Commitment and Culture in Coping Strategies toward a Partner's Infidelity
… current study examined the relationship between face concerns and commitment. There were national and gender differences on self-construal face concern, face-concern and conflict styles in the current study. The current findings also suggested that face concern is moderating the relationship …
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NEGOTIATING FACE AND CONFLICT IN ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIPS: A CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON OF UGANDA AND ETHIOPIA
Using Face Negotiation Theory (FNT) and its associated assumptions to guide the study, the current project addressed the lack of African centered communication research by conducting a mixed-method study in Uganda and Ethiopia regarding how culture and family socialization patterns impact romantic …
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The interplay of pragmatic inference, face and emotion
… with the interplay of pragmatic inference, face and emotion. Pragmatic inference refers to inferences that hearers or observers make when attempting to arrive at speaker meaning, a process during which they presumably operate according to the Maxims postulated by Grice (1975). The empirical …
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Forgiveness-Granting Communication as a Facework Phenomenon
… forgiveness-granting communication as a facework phenomenon through utilizing the concepts of face concerns, degree of face loss, and facework strategies. Participants from public speaking courses (N = 248) completed a self-report survey questionnaire asking them to recall a recent …
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Courageous School Leadership: Rural Principals’ Perception and Self-Efficacy in Implementing Culturally Responsive Leadership (CRL)
<p>Many rural school districts face concerns stemming from rural areas’ demographic and economic state— increased student diversity, high poverty, little parental involvement, lack of technological infrastructure, low student achievement, and difficulty hiring and retaining teachers (Gutierrez, …
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aiWATERS: An Artificial Intelligence Framework for the Water Sector
… development, knowledge integration, and ethical concerns that should be considered before implementing it for real-world applications. Civil engineering is a licensed profession where critical decision-making is involved. Failure of critical decisions by civil engineers may put their license at …
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Estrategias de atenuación en español L1 y L2 : estudio contrastivo en hablantes españoles y suecos
… investigation is couched within the framework of face (Goffman 1967) and politeness theory (Brown and Levinson 1987), which assumes the existence of Face Threatening Acts (FTAs), which human beings, in interaction, strive to mitigate. However, by contrast with the traditional view of mitigation, …
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Stereoselectivity, kinetics, and engineering of flavin/deazaflavin oxidoreductases for use in industrial biocatalysis
… traditional chemical synthesis continues to face concerns about environmental costs and viability. Biocatalysts, such as enzymes, can address both concerns due to their high specificity and inherent renewability, as well as their generally mild operating conditions. Due to their unusual …
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Stereoselectivity, kinetics, and engineering of flavin/deazaflavin oxidoreductases for use in industrial biocatalysis
… traditional chemical synthesis continues to face concerns about environmental costs and viability. Biocatalysts, such as enzymes, can address both concerns due to their high specificity and inherent renewability, as well as their generally mild operating conditions. Due to their unusual …