language and power phatic talk
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?- Created by: Luke Mitchell
- Created on: 15-01-13 11:12
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- Language and Power Phatic talk
- Opening conversations with phatic talk
- We don't just go straight into a topic
- Start off with a bit of friendly, sociable stuff to get 'warmed up'
- Begin with some social talk to 'break the ice'
- Closing conversation with phatic talk
- Often this is done through use of a compliment
- Phatic talk and power
- More powerful can control/strict phatic talk
- How might phatic talk make it easier for a less powerful participant to soften potenially challange by a more powerful participant in a conversation
- Phatic tokens
- Self-orientated: personal to the speaker "my feet are killing me"
- Other-orientated: realted to the hearer "you seem to know what you are doing"
- Neutral: refers to context or general state of affairs "cold, isn't i?"
- used when the other may feel desensive
- Phatic Tokens
- They often indicate dominant participant
- Superior shows consideration offering other-orientated token "it must be jolly hard to make one of those."
- Inferior responds with self-orientated token "hard work this"
- On surface phatic tokens are an exhange of information, subtley they are an acceptance of status
- Opening conversations with phatic talk
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