language and power in spoken texts
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- Created on: 15-01-13 11:35
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- Language and Power in spoken texts
- Power through language
- Who uses jargon?
- Whos uses prestige forms?
- Who uses covert pretige?
- Power through Expertise
- How might the language used reflect the status of 'expert' of any of the speakers?
- What is the result of a speaker misjudging the level of expertise of the audience
- Direct Directives
- Higher to subordinate = more direct
- To freinds we are more direct, with a more obvious sense of power
- Urgent tasks = lack of politeness, less face saving and hedging
- Indirect directives
- Equal-equal = more indirect devices
- more polite to someone not known long of very well
- Difficult tasks or ones which impose extra burdens = more direct
- Softening Strategies
- Used in directives by more powerful "we" instead of "you"
- Hedging - not saying something directly
- Modality - modal auxillary verbs express degrees of certainty, probability, ability.
- Power through language
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