Corrective Facework refers to strategies and statements designed to repair the effect of face-threatening messages. Checking on your perceptions is one way of managing impressions.

What is corrective Facework?

Corrective Facework refers to strategies and statements designed to repair the effect of face-threatening messages. Checking on your perceptions is one way of managing impressions.

What is an example of Facework?

Facework consists in part of certain communications acts that build, protect, or threaten the face of self or other. If you tell someone, “You are an idiot!” the literal semantic and syntactic meaning, or propositional meaning (You are unintelligent), is inconsequential.

What is Facework in intercultural communication?

Facework represents an important mediation of the intersection between an individual’s private self-conception and the individual’s need to cooperate—or not—in a society, especially at the interpersonal and organizational levels of communication.