And this is what I wrote:
Hi
Josh, I also found this topic interesting as I have the opportunity to witness
talk in institutional settings at uni everyday. What stuck out to me in the
reading was tutor-student interactions and Goffman's notion of face. 'Talk' in
tutorials involves many features of politeness which are often used by a tutor
to attend to the face needs of the students. I have seen and experienced
examples of threats to individuals negative and positive face. Negative - when
a tutor may make a demand of a student by asking them a direct question and
Positive - relates to self-image, when they evaluate their response negatively
they are threatening their positive face.
I
agree with you that there are so many rules and regulations of 'talk' that need
to be followed. However these ways of talk are so ingrained into our
sub-conscious that you often don't even realise that you are doing it
:)
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