Zusammenfassung der Ressource
POWER: Key terms
and Theorists
- WAREING
- Political Power: Power held by
politicians and those working within
the law
- Personal Power:
Power held as a result
of an occupation
- Social Group Power: Power held from being
part of a dominant social group
- FAIRCLOUGH
- Instrumental Power: maintains and enforces authority
- Influential Power: influences and persuades
others
- Power in Discourse: power expressed
through language used
- Power behind Discourse: power expressed
through the social statuses of the person speaking
- Synthetic Personalisation: the construction of a relationship between
producer and receiver, often through second person pronoun, "you"
- Members' Resources: background information
that readers use in order to interpret texts
- HOLME AND
STUBBE
- Small Talk: talk that
is primarily
interactional in
orientation- geared
towards
establishing
relationships
- Repressive Discourse
Strategy: an indirect
way of exercising
power & control
through
conversational
contraints
- Oppressive
Discourse Strategy:
linguistic behaviour
that is open in its
exercising of power
and control
- BROWN AND LEVINSON
- GOFFMAN
- Face: a person's self esteem or emotional
needs
- Positive Face: the need to feel wanted, liked and appreciated
- Negative Face: the need to have freedom of
thought and action, and not feel imposed on
- Face Threatening Act: a communicative act that
threatens someones positive or negative face
- Positive and Negative
Politeness Strategies:
redressive strategies
that a speaker might use
to avoid a FTA
- HOWARD
GILES
- Accomodation Theory
- Everyone has a specific
way of speaking to a
particular social group, we
either:
- Converge: communicate in
a similar way to fit in
- Diverge: communicate in an
accentuated way to maximise
oneself
- Episemtic Modality: words
expressing degrees of
possibility, probability or
certainty, eg shall/will
- Deontic Modality: words
expressing degrees of
necessity and obligation
eg may/must
- Symmetrical Address Form: speakers who have the same status
- Asymmetrical Address Form: one speaker if of higher status than the
other
- Also know as Power Asymmetry or Unequal Encounter
- Ideology: set of belief systems or
attitudes
- Powerful Participant: the speaker with
higher status- they are able to impose a
degree of power
- Formulation: the
rewording of another's
contribution by a
powerful participant to
impose a certain
meaning
- Less Powerful Participants: those with less status-
subject to constraints imposed by powerful
participant
- Constraints: the ways
in which powerful
participants block or
control contributions
of a less powerful one