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Specific term required. A 2022 book on this concept by Michael Keevak blames its colonial uses on the missionary Arthur Henderson Smith’s writing on national “characteristics.” Persian enhancement of shakhsiat (“shack-see-yat”) and âberu (“ah-buh-roo”) challenges the universality of this concept’s “negative” freedom of action. No attempt is made to avoid damaging this concept in “bald on-record” strategies. Acts can threaten this (10[1])concept in Brown and Levinson’s politeness theory. (10[1])This concept was treated as a ritual feature of social interactions in an essay on corrective (10[1])and conflict-avoidant aspects of its “work” by (10[1])Erving (10[1])Goffman. (-5[3])Analysis (10[2])of this concept’s “negotiation” in intercultural communication uses Westernized calques that distort the original liǎn (-5[1])(“lee-YEN”) and miànzi (“mee-YEN-tsuh”). For 10 points, (10[1])what Chinese-derived (10[1])concept encompasses (10[1])reputation and honor (10[1])that may be (10[3])“lost”? ■END■ (10[4]0[5])

ANSWER: face [accept “lose face,” “save face,” “give face,” or word forms of any of those non-underlined terms; accept miànzi or liǎn until each is read; accept facework, face-to-face interactions, “On Face-Work,” or face-threatening acts; prompt on honor, prestige, reputation, social standing, social status, dignity, respect, self-worth, morality, or equivalents of any until “reputation” is read] (Smith wrote Chinese Characteristics.)

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Buzzes

Player	Team	Opponent	Buzz Position	Value
Eve Fleisig	Berkeley A	Yale A	58	10
Andrew Salij	Northwestern	Brown	65	10
Charles Hang	WUSTL A	North Carolina A	81	10
Matt Jackson	Chicago A	Cornell A	88	10
Halle Friedman	NYU	Michigan	89	10
Gavin Markoff	Vanderbilt	Chicago C	90	-5
Tiffany Zhou	Florida	Rutgers	90	-5
Ashish Subramanian	Duke	Toronto B	90	-5
Jakob Myers	Indiana	Purdue	91	10
Michal Gerasimiuk	Stanford	Minnesota A	91	10
Joseph Chambers	Virginia	Yale B	106	-5
Geoffrey Wu	Columbia A	Texas	111	10
Sky Li	Toronto A	Maryland	113	10
Michael Du	Waterloo	Chicago B	115	10
Derek Chen	Columbia B	WUSTL B	118	10
Conor Thompson	Iowa State	Johns Hopkins	121	10
Rasheeq Azad	North Carolina B	Cornell B	121	10
Adrian Wong	Ottawa	Penn	121	10
Jaik Havlick	Arizona State	Claremont Colleges	123	0
Akshay Seetharam	Claremont Colleges	Arizona State	123	0
Nermeen Rahman	Chicago C	Vanderbilt	123	0
Cory Smith	Kentucky	Harvard	123	10
William Foster	Chicago D	Minnesota B	123	10
Jack Oberman	South Carolina	McGill	123	0
Asha Basu	McGill	South Carolina	123	0
Ben Wismath	Toronto B	Duke	123	10
Anuttam Ramji	Berkeley B	Truman State	123	10

Summary

Tournament	Edition	Exact Match?	TUH	Conv. %	Power %	Neg %	Average Buzz
2024 ACF Nationals	04/21/2024	Y	23	78%	0%	17%	104.17