Face-saving Use
Face-Saving Use is a pragmatic function of proverbs in discourse whereby indirect speech acts serve to preserve the speaker’s or hearer’s social identity and avoid embarrassment by mitigating face-threatening acts through culturally sanctioned wisdom expressions.
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Qian Huang, Robert M. Davison, Jibao Gu · Information Systems Journal · 2010 · 205 citations · Full text
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