lose face

Antonym(s)

Sources

• WALES 1989 170

  WALES, Katie. (1989) A Dictionary of Stylistics. London: Longman. 

• HOLMES 1992 173

  HOLMES, Janet. (1992) An Introduction to Sociolinguistics. New York: Longman.

• BROWN & LEVINSON 61

  BROWN, Penelope & LEVINSON, Stephen C. (1987) Politeness: Some universals in language usage. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press.

• HUDSON 1996 113

  HUDSON, R.A. (1996) Sociolinguistics, 2nd Edition. Cambridge: University Press.

• MATTHEWS 1997 125

  MATTHEWS, P.H. (1997) The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

• GUMPERZ 1982 98 (loss of face)

  GUMPERZ, John J. (1982) Discourse Strategies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

• RICHARDS etal. 1992 135 (loss of face)

  RICHARDS, Jack, PLATT, J. & WEBER, H. (1992) Longman Dictionary of Language Teaching & Applied Linguistics. London: Longman.