We propose a framework for analyzing discourse by combining two interdependent concepts from sociolinguistic theory: face acts and politeness. While politeness has robust existing tools and data, face acts are less resourced. We introduce a new corpus created by annotating Wikipedia talk pages with face acts and we use this to train a face act tagger. We then employ our framework to study how face and politeness interact with gender and power in discussions between Wikipedia editors. Among other findings, we observe that female Wikipedians are not only more polite, which is consistent with prior studies, but that this difference corresponds with significantly more language directed at humbling aspects of their own face. Interestingly, the distinction nearly vanishes once limiting to editors with administrative power.

翻译：我们提出一个结合社会语言学理论中两个相互依存概念——面子行为与礼貌——的话语分析框架。尽管礼貌现象已有成熟的工具与数据支持，面子行为的研究资源则相对匮乏。我们通过标注维基百科讨论页面中的面子行为构建了一个新语料库，并以此训练了一个面子行为标注器。随后，我们运用该框架研究了维基百科编辑讨论中面子与礼貌如何与性别及权力产生交互。研究发现，女性编辑不仅更倾向于使用礼貌用语（这与既有研究一致），且这种差异显著体现在更多针对自身面子中谦逊层面的语言表达。值得注意的是，当仅考察拥有管理权限的编辑时，这一差异几乎完全消失。