language and power in spoken texts
- Created by: Luke Mitchell
- Created on: 15-01-13 09:16
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- Language and Power in spoken texts
- Agenda-setting and topic management
- who sets the agenda for what gets talked about? Who leads the talk?
- Who chooses or changes the topic?
- Is this agenda allowed to be ambushed or side-tracked?
- How are side discussions managed?
- Turn-taking, holding the floor and seizing the floor
- Who holds the power in terms of turn-taking?
- How are turns taken?
- How are interruptions dealt with?
- What happens if the turn-taking rules are transgressed?
- Who talks the most?
- Who interrupts or back downs?
- Audience Address
- "I" suggests intimacy or straightforwardness or openness
- "you" suggests familiarity and friendship
- "we" suggesting membership of a group with the speaker
- "our" seperates speaker's group from audience
- Forms of address
- what terms are used when directly speaking to another person in the conversation?
- What does this tell us about the power relationships?
- Who uses first names, title or honorifics?
- Types of Utterance
- Whos has the greater freedom to ask different types of questions?
- Who comments on what is said?
- Who uses more phatic talk?
- Who uses more tags?
- Agenda-setting and topic management
- Who uses more phatic talk?
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