Face: (New) Facets of a Sociopragmatic Concept

Face is a key-concept in current socio-pragmatics: as a metaphorical construct it enables researchers to explain social processes in human communication. Since these are mainly reflected in language use, face has also become a matter of linguistics. The 8 articles, mostly stemming from linguacultures other than English, explore both, different labels and expressions of face, and the verbal enactment of face in selected speech acts and communicative events.