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What does facework mean?

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  1. The material of the outside or front side, as of a wall or building.
  2. (psychology) The communicative strategies involved in upholding face, or social prestige.
  3. (mining) work done at the face, such as the coalface
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I wish to propose from the outset that Brown and Levinson's facework notion is applicable to present Chinese culture.
It is built of rubble masonry, with ashlar facework, laid in hydraulic mortar.
The SILKA elements are not suitable for application in the external leaf of a cavity wall and are also not intended for facework masonry application.
According to Ho, an appropriate facework implies the interactant's ability to show a high degree of sensitivity on how their actions are perceived by others.

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