Goffman explains that the way we speak is a set of practices. We must knowledge these practices and stay in order, to keep face. Keeping face is an important key to life. To be out of face is to be ashamed (Goffman, 321). To be in-face is to feel confident. To be in wrong face is to lose face (Goffman, 1967). Even children at a very young begin to learn about face. Your self-image is not to be taking lightly according to Goffman. When a child gets something taken away, he cries about it, not because he even wants the item that much, but because it hurts his self-image and this he is aware of already (Goffman, 1967). I found this so interesting because I work with children, and now it has concurred to me that they are developing their own self-awareness already at such a young
Goffman explains that the way we speak is a set of practices. We must knowledge these practices and stay in order, to keep face. Keeping face is an important key to life. To be out of face is to be ashamed (Goffman, 321). To be in-face is to feel confident. To be in wrong face is to lose face (Goffman, 1967). Even children at a very young begin to learn about face. Your self-image is not to be taking lightly according to Goffman. When a child gets something taken away, he cries about it, not because he even wants the item that much, but because it hurts his self-image and this he is aware of already (Goffman, 1967). I found this so interesting because I work with children, and now it has concurred to me that they are developing their own self-awareness already at such a young