Foreword List of Figures Contributors 1 Introduction: The concept of face revisited Gudrun Held Part1 Face : a metaphorical notion under intercultural scrutiny 2 Roman notions of face : An analysis of the Latin persona Luis Unceta Gómez 3 Amour-propre self-love and flattery: Face pessimism in late-modern French sources Annick Paternoster 4 Remarks on face as a folk concept in Romanian Mihaela Constantinescu 5 A value-construct approach to face expressions in Chinese and Japanese Linguacultures Xiao Qi and Zhou Ling Part2 Face in interaction or verbal faces of face 6 From negative to positive face : Apologizing in the history of Italian Chiara Fedriani and Chiara Ghezzi 7 Face in Italian compliments Giovanna Alfonzetti 8 Face (s) and facework(s) in a corpus of Italian and German compliments Marina Castagneto and Miriam Ravetto 9 Facework Night: Representations of Self and Other(s) in the Presidential Concession Speech Francesca Santulli Afterword: Some thoughts on face1 and face2 Jim O'Driscoll Index.