PSYC 106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: United Service Organizations, General Idea, Erving Goffman
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Face is the actions we take, not the same as being happy. Larry using formality to ask if he can start eating his salad. Larry performed positive face in reciprocity, saying you heard the man! Dig in when mike invited the guests to eat. Larry agreeing with everything that mike is saying in leading grace. Dinner guests perform positive face towards larry"s remark about eating salad, laughing to show involvement. Goes along with it to avoid face threatening acts. Puts the onus on mike to figure out what he did wrong. I admire your skills positive facework complimenting the chat and cut. If you don"t get a question, its okay bc they"re just guiding questions for watching. We want others to do actions in language that show us respect, courtesy, We know other want that from us so we do the same for others to reciprocate. Treat how you want to be treated.