Language and Power Theories
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- Language and Power Theories
- Fairclough
- Synthetic personalisation
- Using personal pronouns to create a relationship or connection between the text producer and receiver
- Spoken discourse = unequal encounters
- Someone always has more power in a conversation
- Power behind discourse
- Text producer has external power
- Power within discourse
- High register/formal language
- Synthetic personalisation
- Sapier Worf Hypothesis
- Linguistic determinism
- Language shapes thoughts < > Thoughts shape language
- Political correctness
- Attempts to reduce bias and discrimination
- Linguistic determinism
- Giles
- Accommodation theory
- Divergence = assert social and cultural identity
- Convergence = changing your language to suit others to reduce social distance
- Accommodation theory
- Waring
- Types of power
- Social
- Political
- used by politicians or police
- personal
- Used by professionals e.g. teacher
- Knowledge and ideas
- Knowing things
- Instrumental power
- Maintaining or enforcing authority
- Types of power
- Lakofff
- Politeness principle
- DON'T impose
- DO make receiver feel good
- Politeness principle
- Joos
- Legal language can never change
- Fairclough
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