Analysis Of Face-Negotiation Theory

When it comes to this article, the main objective that the authors, Qin Zhang, Stella Ting-Toomey, and John G. Oetzel, had was that they wanted to “to link emotion to the FNT and to examine the relationships of emotion with self-construal, face concerns, and conflict styles.” (Zhang, Toomey, & Oeztel, 2014, p. 374). They wanted to show that when it came to anger, guilt, and compassion, that those emotions brought out conflict in oneself, mostly in the United States and China. It is in the end the authors concluded that “Face concerns have direct and indirect effects on conflict styles and provided further validation of a key theoretical premise of the FNT framework” (Zhang, Toomey, & Oeztel, 2014, p. 389). That sometimes concerns on the self-image

How they used that was that they wanted to expand more on “members of collectivistic cultures or individuals who are interdependent in self-construal tend to be more other/mutual-face oriented, avoiding, obliging, compromising, and integrating, whereas members of individualistic cultures or individuals who are independent in self-construal tend to be more self-face oriented and competing” (Zhang, Toomey, & Oeztel, 2014, p. 374). Mostly when it comes to certain emotions that everybody uses almost

There is something about anger, guilt, and compassion that will always break through. This article also enhancing my understanding of the theory more. Before reading it, I just knew the basics and how to apply it, but now I know a little bit more of its workings and understandings. How this theory contributes to my understanding of the human communication is that it makes me wonder what people are really hiding, mostly if they are trying to keep face all the time. Even when they experience strong emotions, it is during that tiny point we get to really see who they are depending on how they act. How I will see communication differently because of this theory now is that I will pay attention more to how people act. To really look and see if what people are showing us is really what they want us to see or if they are hiding