The real interpretation of What face is a worldwide paradigm and even an important element of our identification. This can be referred to the image of ourselves publicly. Each one of us has an important dominant role in communicating with others in everyday life. The process of FACE is called in certain cultures FACEWORK. The behaviour a person uses to keep up with a postitive or well-received image influences the way of that role on oral communication. A person from the USA could use a facial expression or make a sign with its face that for that culture can be said as if that person agrees to plan. for example, The person from the American culture has not got the saving face, but it makes use of a more direct sign and gets to the point. Perhaps, you may hear of the nodding face which is the one that students commonly use when they say when all of them admit they understood the class. Moreover, they did not. It is important to affirmatively nod the face for certain cultures as a sort of saving face to maintain the cordiality and respect, even though, they did not undertand anything and why they did so. This can make us have respect for the face of conversational partners. FACEWORK can change and differ from culture to culture, and what is useful for one, can be useless for the other. We use facework to protect us from vulnerability according to emotions or feelings towards other people.
Written by Eduardo Becerrit.
Eduardo Becerrit 