Define face and facework, and explain how preventative facework and corrective facework apply to interpersonal communication.

What will be an ideal response?


- Face is a person's positive perception of himself or herself in interactions with others.
- Facework is using communication to maintain your own positive self-image and to seek approval of your face.
- You are engaged in facework when you support, reinforce, or challenge someone else's face (or self-perception).
* Preventative facework is an effort to maintain and enhance one's positive self-perceptions.
* Corrective facework is an effort to remedy what one perceives as a negative perception of oneself on the part of others.

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