Power Theorists

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Grice's Maxims - Quality
Speakers should tell the truth
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Grice's Maxims - Quantity
A contribution should be as informative as required, not too little or too much
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Grice's Maxims - Relevance
A contribution should relation clearly to the exchange
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Grice's Maxims - Manner
A contribution should be clear, orderly, avoiding obscurity and ambiguity
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Face
The image that we present of ourselves to others
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Wareing - Political Power
Those with power of law
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Wareing - Personal Power
Power due to their job/role
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Social Group Power
Power by gender, age, class, etc.
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Fairclough - Instrumental Power
Used by individuals or groups to maintain and enforce anything
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Fairclough - Influential Power
Used to influence and persuade others
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William Labov - Convergence
A speaker changes their language use to copy/fit in with other speaker
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William Labov - Divergence
A speaker changes their language to go against/be different to another speaker
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Howard Giles - Overt Prestige
Open and obvious respect
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Howard Giles - Covert Prestige
Hidden and not obvious respect
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Power Asymmetry
Speakers fighting for power
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Unequal Encounter
One is more powerful than the other
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Flouting Maxims
Not following Grice's Maxims
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Mitigation
A question disguised as a declarative or masked imperatives
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Card 2

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A contribution should be as informative as required, not too little or too much

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Grice's Maxims - Quantity

Card 3

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A contribution should relation clearly to the exchange

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Card 4

Front

A contribution should be clear, orderly, avoiding obscurity and ambiguity

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Card 5

Front

The image that we present of ourselves to others

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