... invitation, occasionally English gives a reason And English s reason occasionally is replaced with a dilemma (D) This seems to make refusal “softer”, the person who is rejected vexes less than - English ... self – image of a person It refers to that emotional and social sense of self that everyone has and expects everyone else to recognize There are many reasons why people want to save their faces They ... refusing invitations, offers and suggestions, gratitude was regularly expressed by English speakers, but rarely by Egyptian 24 Arabic speakers (Nelson, Al-batal, and Echols, 1996) When Mandarian Chinese...