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Language and power
- Language of power found in different contexts
- Political language
- To persuade
- Repetition
- Three part lists
- First person plural pronouns
- Figurative language
- Rhetorical questions
- Hyperboles
- Repetition
- To persuade
- Legal language
- Has own jargon
- Syntax complex with many
subordinate clauses
- Repetitive
- Knowledge of
this language
gives
specialists a
distinct
advantage, and
so power
- Has own jargon
- Education
- Teachers use imperatives,
students don't and use
indirect questions
- Imbalance in address terms to show
teacher has authority
- Teachers use imperatives,
students don't and use
indirect questions
- Business
- Employers speak directly to
employees, who use more
politeness strategies
- Hierarchical structure shown in titles
- Employers speak directly to
employees, who use more
politeness strategies
- Political language
- Address terms
- Politics
- Honourable member
- Honourable member
- Law
- Your Honour
- Ladies and gentlemen of the jury
- Your Honour
- Education
- Sir, Miss, Dr, Mr Smith
- Sir, Miss, Dr, Mr Smith
- Business
- Madam chair, sir, madam
- Madam chair, sir, madam
- Politics
- Exerting power in conversation
- Initiating conversation
- Holding the floor
- Imperative sentences
- Interrupting
- Unresponsiveness
- Questioning
- Topic changing
- Initiating conversation
- Context of a conversation and power
- Relationship
between
speakers
- In certain contexts,
dominant features
can actually be
supportive
- Asking questions can
instead of wanting to
control conversation, can
be to hand over the floor
to someone else
- Relationship
between
speakers
- Power shows in different ways
- Non-verbal communication
- Posture
- Positioning
- Gestures
- Eye contact
- Posture
- Non-verbal aspects of speech
- Pitch
- Intonation
- Volume
- Pace
- Stress
- Pitch
- Standard English and RP
- Receive most prestige
- Associated with
professional jobs and good
education
- More authority and status
- Receive most prestige
- Non-verbal communication
- Jargon
- Jargon alternatives
- Plain English campaign 1999
- Crystal Mark
- Plain English campaign 1999
- Understanding jargon sense
of inclusion
- Non-specialists intimidated and
excluded from the high status group
- Jargon alternatives
- Political correctness
- Language adapted to minimise social inequality
- Language adapted to minimise social inequality
- Media
- Bias
- Prejudice
- Stereotypes
- Sensationalising
- Bias
- Adverts
- Selling
- Form
- Target audience
- Hook
- Puns and well known collocations
- Intertextuality
- Selling
- Newspapers
- Tabloid
- The Sun
- News of the World
- The Sun
- Broadsheet
- The Guardian
- The Daily Telegraph
- The Guardian
- Tabloid
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