A Pragmatics-First Approach to Faces

This article aims to make a philosophical contribution the understanding of communicative dimensions and functions faces facial expressions (FEs). First, I will refer expressivist socio-communicative theories FEs, proposal unify them under pragmatic approach based on theory speech acts. Subsequently, examine characterization FEs as social behavioral affordances, identify their characteristics functions, especially in “conversational displays”, justify why they are functionally special. then insert signals into framework perspective human communication, both verbal non-verbal, which is broader than act theory: Pragmatics-First Approach Human Communication. argue that it provides an adequate pragmatic-interactive foundations where Facereading central component. Finally, relationship between Second-person Perspective cognition.