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| Psychological vs. pragmatic approaches to identity |
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Psychological Approach: The way the private self is monitored in external behavior. How our private image is monitored through behavior.
Pragmatic views: Performance private. We form our identity based on how people perceive you. People realize if they are funny based on the reactions of others, and hence form an identity based on that. |
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| Facework is directly observable and is focused on action. Face is unobservable |
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| Relationships between identity and face |
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Private identity is based on: inner motivations and psychological characteristics
Public identity is based on: actual behavior |
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| Protective (Negative) Face |
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| To be seen as an individual, our need for freedom of action. The need to be seen as self-directed. Taps into “INDEPENDENCE” |
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| Supportive (Positive) Face |
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| The need to be desirable to others. We want to be SUPPORTED by a group of people. To be perceived as belonging to a desirable group. Taps into “INTERDEPENDECE” |
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Protective FTA= threatens independence
Examples: if you take a study into a professor and the professor turns it down. If someone was really proud of their idea and the person shuts down the idea. |
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Supportive FTA= call in-group membership into question
Examples: brushing a student off as not a serious student, the professor would just throw him to the side. |
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known as: INDIRECT
Addressees the FTA without directly threatening someone else’s face
Message is designed to appear as a DIFFERENT communicative action than the one you really intend |
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| known as: DIRECT Think Simone from American Idol. |
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i. NOT using tact is also known as a: Don’t throw any punches just come out and say what you have to say, bluntly or directly say what you want say.
ii. What are the advantages of not using tact?
You get the point across! Dispenses with the complexity of fact- tact makes your message longer.
BALD FTAs may be easier to understand
iii. What are the disadvantages of not using tact?
NO effort to save the receiver’s face
You may be seen as abrasive and rude. |
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you can use either protective or supportive tact.
1. Supportive Tact: An attempt to show the receiver:
That you have something in common
Values, past experiences, same social network
2. Protective Tact: An attempt to show the receiver that s/he:
Is not being imposed upon
Has value as an individual |
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