Jamal Awil

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Basic trust is sustained through monitoring gaze, posture, and gesture. [fact]

In facework engagements themselves, the sustaining of basic trust is accomplished through the chronic monitoring of the gaze, bodily posture, and gesture, and the conventions of orthodox conversation.

DEFINE: Defines how 'facework engagements' operationally sustain basic trust through non-verbal cues and conversational conventions.

Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Moderni…, loc. 242