Power Key Terms

Litotes

Adjacency pair

Influential power

Instrumental power

Wareing

Fairclough

Goffman

Brown and Levinson

Power in discourse

Power behind discourse

Positive face

Negative face

Face

Face-saving act

Face-threatening act

Bald-on-record

Positive politeness

Negative politeness

Off-record (indirect)

Formulation

Constraints

Powerful participant

Less powerful participant

Power asymmetry AKA unequal encounter

Passive voice

Active voice

Prosodic features

Paralinguistic features

Latinate words

Social group power

Personal power

Political power

Howard Giles

Institutional Talk

Germanic words

Trudgill

Members Resources

Synthetic personalisation

Building the consumer

Allusion

Repressive discourse structure

Oppressive discourse structure