Language and Occupation
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- Language and Occupation
- Acronyms
- e.g. GCSE
- Specific acronyms that belong to occupation
- Speeds up process in high stress jobs
- Giles Accomodation Theory (1973)
- Convergence
- Used to relate to people
- e.g. simplifying language to a lower position worker
- e.g. using jarogn with boss
- Divergence
- Used to distance themselves
- e.g. not using specific words to avoid association with a particular social group
- Cheshire
- Children who approved of behaviour used non-standard features
- Convergence
- Occupational Register
- Every occupation has its own lexicon
- Sometimes used widely but originated in that specific field
- Lexicon changes depending on who is speaking (convergence/divergence)
- Discourse Structure
- Grammatical structure only familiar to a specific occupation
- e.g. prescription only familiar to doctor
- Discourse Community (Swales, 2011)
- Members of a specific community who share a set of common goals, use specialist lexis and discourse
- Have to possess a required level if knowledge and skill to be considered eligible to join community
- Inferential Frameworks (Drew and Heritage 1993)
- Implicit ways of thinking communicating and behaving
- There are strong hierarchies of power with asymetrical relationships marked through language use
- Acronyms
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