Face orientations in Athol Fugard's The road to Mecca, My Children! My Africa and Valley Song
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Authors
Kikamba, Simao Luyikumu
Issue Date
2016-10
Type
Dissertation
Language
en
Keywords
Adjacency pairs , Athol Fugard , Face , Facework , Face-threatening-acts (FTAs) , Implicatures , Politeness , Turn-taking
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Abstract
This dissertation seeks to address the multiple ways face or one’s public self-image is attacked, supported and maintained in Athol Fugard’s The Road to Mecca, My Children! My Africa! and Valley Song, and through this discussion demonstrate how the notion of face can make a contribution to the study and understanding of Athol Fugard’s work. In the pursuit of their goals/objectives, interactants perform speech acts which may threaten the face of other participants. The choice of strategies available to participants in the performance of these face-threatening acts (FTAs) includes going on record, off record (indirectly) or avoiding the FTA altogether (saying nothing). Each text offers a fresh perspective from which face can be analysed: rebelliousness against conformism (The Road to Mecca); the perspective of the cross-racial, cross-cultural relationships (My Children! My Africa!); and the context of a closely-knit family relationship (Valley Song).
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Citation
Kikamba, Simao Luyikumu (2016) Face orientations in Athol Fugard's The road to Mecca, My Children! My Africa and Valley Song, University of South Africa, Pretoria, <http://hdl.handle.net/10500/22165>