Language and Occupation
- Created by: liagreen3
- Created on: 17-08-16 11:16
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- Occupation
- Face
- …is the public self-image of a person, it is the emotional and social image of ourselves that we present to everyone else. Goffman called this FACE.
- Positive face - our desire to be accepted and liked Negative face - our wish to have freedom and independence
- Face Threatening Acts - obvious examples include insults or expressions of disapprovals
- Discourse Community
- Phatic Talk
- Koester argued that as well as specialist lexis social interaction is vital in the workplace - small talk
- Community of Practice
- A group of people who understand beliefs etc due to meeting regularly
- Power
- Instrumental - authority Influential - persuasion Political - workers backed by law Social - social variables Personal - head teacher over teachers
- Accommodation Theory
- Upward Div - posher Downwards Div - common Convergence - same
- Inferential Framework
- certain assumptions within the community about how people should think, communicate and behave
- Face
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