Iranian Women’s Negative Face in the Construction of Their Identity
A main feature of recent scholarly work on language is its focus on identity, or the self, as a social construct, or more particularly as a discursive product (Fairclough, 1992; Ivanic, 1998). One way of viewing the self as a social construct is through the notion ‘face’, i.e. “the positive social v...
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Teaching English Language and Literature Society of Iran (TELLSI)
2007-01-01
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Series: | Teaching English Language |
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Online Access: | http://www.teljournal.org/article_122655_0cbdeaf6b9f41d7ebe7a6dc3ecbd17ed.pdf |