Language and Occupation mind map
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- Language and Occupation
- Hornyak
- Theorised that the shift from work talk to personal talk is always initiated by the highest ranking person in the room
- Small talk is defined by the power relationship between workers
- Superiors initiate and delimit small talk and define suitable conservations matters
- Koester
- Phatic communication is verbal or non-verbal communication that has a social function, such as to start a conversation, rather than having a informative function
- Phatic talk is very important in the workplace. it creates interpersonal relationships, which increases efficiency and helps to avoid any potential confrontations
- E..G Verbal= "How's it going?" Non verbal= waving hello
- Drew and Heritage
- Summarised the differences between workplace talk and everyday conversations
- Workplace talk features: Goal orientation, Turn taking, Allowable contributions, professional lexis, structure and asymmetry
- Swales
- A discourse community isa group of people who share a set of discourses
- Six defining factors: broadly agreed set of public goals, mechanisims of intercommunication among its members, uses those mechanisms to primarily provide information or feedback, one or more genres used in communication, a specific lexis and a threshold level of members with a suitable degree of context and expertise.
- Herbert and Straight
- Deflecting of rejecting the compliments negates the implication that the addressee is superior to the speaker in any way
- E.G. if someone was to post a picture a person would respond "You look so good!" The poster would respond "Not as good as you!"
- Opposing theorist - Deborah Cameron. Women do this due to their need to support others and not due to an inability to accept a compliment
- Holmes and Marra
- Women use just as much as humour as men and for the same purpose (to control the discourse)
- Women are more likely to encourage supportive collaboration
- Hornyak
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