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There are a set of contingencies included in this model which I have not yet
explicitly referred to but which seem logical and necessary extensions if the
framework is to capture the range of facework contingencies captured by other
more general readings. That is, what I have classed as disequilibric alignment. I
shall expand on and illustrate more fully these particular contingencies in Chapter
6, where I shall explore alignments which breach the equilibric thresholds of
sociability. In a nutshell though, what I shall refer to later as positive threshold
breaches shall be those instances of positive alignment which essentially threaten
the manifestation of differentiation between participants in sociable episodes.
Conversely, negative threshold breaches shall be demonstrated to be those
manifest by differentiation extending beyond that which is easily accommodated as
sociable, thereby threatening the solidaric bonds between participants and thus
positive face. These and the other contingencies of the facework as alignment
framework shall be fully demonstrated and discussed in the analytical chapters
(Chapters 6 to 8).
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