Everyone deals with face-to-face or other kinds of contact with people on a daily basis. A line is a pattern of verbal and nonverbal acts where you express your views of a certain situation, and make an evaluation of others, and yourself based on this. The meaning of the word face is the positive social value a person claims for themselves by the line others think that he or she has taken at anytime. A person is said to have, or be in, or maintain face when the line they take shows an image of him or her that is consistent, supported by judgments and evidence, and is confirmed by evidence. Someone that is said to be out of face when there are in contact with other people, and are not about to have a ready line or an expected line to take in a certain situation. Erving Goffman explains that facial expressions, spacing between people and others are all ways that we communicate with one another. He says that relationship of face to self is divided into many parts. People place others by face and also in turn are placed by their own face. They can influence how they are placed by others by manipulation their own face. Face can also become a mask for some people. Placing happens through language too. What someone say, or how they say it can always change how a face is seen in others eyes.
             Instead of handling a situation a while ago and discussing something with my boyfriend I let the situation get out of hand. I let little bits and pieces of things add up in my mind. I acted out of character and embarrassed myself and others at the same time. It made me feel very angry afterwards because I am usually not the type of person to let things blow up all of a sudden. It made my boyfriend feel like he had done something horribly wrong when only a little issue had just occurred. I could have talked about the situation calmly, or even when something bothered me last time. I could have handled everyth
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