Occupation and Language

• 1992
• 'Talk at Work' - identified some key differences between everyday conversation and work place talk

a group of people who use the same variety of a language and who share specific rules for speaking and interpretating speech

Yule - 2004:

• 'speech is a form of social identity and is used consciously to indicate membership of different social groups'

Zdenek & Salzmann - 2004:

• 'need to share; pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary and manner of speaking to belong to the same speech community'

a group of people who share certain langage using practices

Hewings and Hewings - 2005:

• 'groups of people who share particular registers and use the kinds of texts in which these registers occur'

John Swales - 1990:

• 'groups that have goals or purposes and use communication to achieve these goals'

• 2011
• instrumental authority - enforcing authority
• influential authority - using persuassion to make someone behave in a certain way

• Accomodation theory
• 'when people interact they adjust their speech, vocal patterns and gestures, to accomodate others'

• 1975
• Initiation (starting conversation)
• Response
• Feedback (replying)

• 2014

Discourse&Knowledge:

• When we speak we are influenced by what is called a knowledge device
• audience appropriate language
• we change language depending on the 'communicative situation'

Power in interpersonal communication:

• powerful language can be used to influence others
• all have a personal power from our speech patterns
• "If what one says is worth listening to, then whenever one speaks, those will listen"