Occupation Mindmap
- Created by: sydneyjones
- Created on: 30-04-18 12:24
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- Occupation
- Drew and Heritage
- Members of a discourse community share inferential frameworks which is implicit ways of communicating
- Strong hierarchies of power within organisations
- John Swales
- Discourse community- members share a common set of goals
- Specialist lexis and knowledgeable skills required
- Koester
- Phatic talk important in getting jobs done
- Workers need impersonal relationships and non-work related interactions
- Labov
- Department stores Saks - top Macys - middle Kleins - bottom
- Sales assistants from Saks used correct pronunciation most, Macy's showed greatest upward shift
- Howard Giles
- Divergence- use language to distance ourselves from others
- Convergence- use language to resemble that used by people around us
- Grice's Maxims
- Manner- should be clear, orderly and brief avoiding ambiguity
- Quantity- should be informative as required
- Quality- speakers tell the truth to correct amount necessary
- Relevance- contributions relate to purpose of the exchange
- Drew and Heritage
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