Language and Power Theory + Theorists
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- Created on: 12-05-22 20:28
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- Language and Power
- Theorists
- Erving Goffman - Politeness
- Positive Face - Universal need for appreciation
- Negative Face - Universal need for independence
- Face-threating act - Threatens someone faces
- Politeness strategies - Ways speaker can avoid threatening face
- Norman Fairclough
- Power in discourse - Ways power manifested in situations
- Power behind discourse - Focus on social + ideological reasons in enactment of power
- Deborah Cameron - Political correctness
- Ensuring that in society we as individuals use terms that are deemed as political correct.
- Not using the phrase 'the fat controller' as that is stated as politically incorrect
- Erving Goffman - Politeness
- Theories
- Types of Power
- Political power - Power held by those with the backing of the law
- Personal power - Power held by individuals as a result of their roles in organisations
- Social group power - Power held as a result of being a member of a dominant social group
- Instrumental power - Power used to maintain and enforce authority
- Influential power - Power used to influence or persuade others
- Modality
- Epistemic modality - Constructions that express degrees of possibility, probability or certainty
- Deontic modality - Constructions that express degrees of necessity and obligation
- Discourse Strategy
- Repressive discourse strategy - A more indirect way of showing power through constraints
- Oppressive discourse strategy - Direct way of showing power through constraints
- Types of Power
- Key Terms
- Ideology - A set of belief systems, attitudes or a world view held by an individual or group.
- Constraints - Ways in which powerful participants block or control contributions of less powerful participants, eg interruptions
- Formulation - The rewording of another's contribution by a powerful participant to impose a certain meaning or understanding
- Theorists
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