... different or /and identical in terms of age, gender, status, familiarity and closeness. In other words, the informants and their co-participants are put in symmetrical and asymmetrical role relationships. ... hand, refusing not to do the FTA in disagreeing runs the risk of damaging alter and ego’s face. In the act of expressing anger, for instance, the fifth strategy appears an FTA that potentially ... parts: a first pair part and a second pair part. Once the first part is given, there is a set of potential seconds to it. However, not all second parts are of equal structural complexity and...