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Introduction
Part3,Face,politenessandsocialnorms,overviewsaspectsofpolitebe-
haviourandfaceworkindifferentlanguagesandcultures.PaulinaBiałyanaly-
sestheuseofdiminutivesinPolish;MagdalenaVargawritesabouttheIndian
wayofpoliteness,whichoftenseemsshockingtomembersofothercultures;
whileMariaSpiechowiczdescribesharmoniouscommunicationandtheimpor-
tanceoftheconceptofomoiyari(consideration,sympathy)inJapaneseculture.
InPart4,Faceindifferentdiscourses,eachchapterisdevotedtothestudy
offaceindifferenttypesofdiscourse:MarcinKuczokconductsacognitive
analysisofthemetaphorsofGOD’SFACEintheOldTestament.Yasuhisa
WatanabeinvestigatesthenatureofJapaneseemicfaceonthebasisofpolitical
analyticarticles.Thelastchapterdealswiththeinterpreter’sprofessionalface
andtheethicsofinterpreting(EwaBogdanowska-Jakubowska).
Inspiteofthegreatvarietyofperspectivestakenbytheauthors,thecon-
tributionspresentedinthisvolumeformaconsistentwholeduetothecommon
denominatoroftheconceptofface.
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Trans.).Oxford:OxfordUniversityPress.(Originalworkpublished1912).
Goffman,E.(1967).Interactionritual:Essaysinface-to-facebehavior.Chicago:
AldinePublishingCompany.
Hu,H.Ch.(1944).TheChineseconceptsofface.AmericanAnthropologist,
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