Abstract Goffman’s concepts of face and face work, and his assertion that talk in face-to-face interaction is cooperative, are undertheorized and often critiqued. In an attempt to expand on these concepts, excerpts are analyzed from a single-teller narrative which evolves into a 13-minute conversational story about the relationship troubles of an absent third party. Analyzed for the verbal and nonverbal disruptions and subsequent adjustments and remedial actions manifested by participants, Conversation Analysis (CA) is employed to capture how threats to face surface and how they are recognized, cooperatively managed, and made tellable. Through the analysis, this paper addresses the perceived incommensurability between CA and Goffman’s notion of face, demonstrating the ways in which face is (1) a doing a doing, a situated presentation of self that serves narrative-advancing functions and renders talk tellable as threats to face arise and (2) an achievement comprised of moves that are tacitly cooperative, ambiguously cooperative, or uncooperatively cooperative.

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渲染不可描述的，可讲述的

摘要 Goffman 的面子和面子工作的概念，以及他关于面对面交流中的谈话是合作的断言，都没有被理论化并经常受到批评。为了扩展这些概念，我们从一个单一讲述者的叙述中分析了摘录，该叙述演变成一个 13 分钟的对话故事，讲述了一个缺席的第三方的关系问题。针对参与者表现出的言语和非言语干扰以及随后的调整和补救措施进行分析，对话分析 (CA) 用于捕捉如何面对表面的威胁以及它们如何被识别、合作管理和变得可分辨。通过分析，本文解决了 CA 和 Goffman 的面子概念之间感知到的不可通约性，展示了面子是 (1) 做某事的方式，