See Also
- Politeness
- Speech act
- Face
- Complimentary language and gender
- Cooperative principle
- Gricean maxims
- Erving Goffman
- Stephen C. Levinson
- Face (social concept)
- Face saving
- Facework
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“To see ourselves as others see us can be eye-opening. To see others as sharing a nature with ourselves is the merest decency. But it is from the far more difficult achievement of seeing ourselves amongst others, as a local example of the forms human life has locally taken, a case among cases, a world among worlds, that the largeness of mind, without which objectivity is self- congratulation and tolerance a sham, comes.”
—Clifford Geertz (b. 1926)