English Language:language And Power Keywords

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what does political power mean?

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power heldby those with the backing of the law

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what does personal power mean?

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power held by individuals as a result of their roles in organisations

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what does social group power mean?

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power held as a result of being a member of a dominant social group

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what does instrumental power mean?

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power used to maintain and enforce authority

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what does inflential power mean?

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power used to influence or persuade others

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what does power in discourse mean?

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they ways in which power is manifested in situations through language

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what does power behind discourse mean?

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the focus on the social and ideological reasons behind the enactment of power

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what does ideology mean?

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a set of beliefs systems attitudes or a world view held by an individual or groups.

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what does epistemic modality mean?

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constructions that express degrees of possibility,probality and obligation

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what does deontic modality mean?

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constructions that express degrees of necessity and obligation

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what does synthetic personalisation mean?

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they way in which advertising and other forms of communication used personalised language such as the second person pronoun "you" to construct a relationship between the text producer and the reader.

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what does members resources mean?

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the vast amount of background knowledge and information that readers use in order to intepret text.

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what does power asymmetry mean?

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a marked differencein the power status of individuals involved in discourse

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what does unequal encounter mean?

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highligting the power on speaker has over another.

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what does powerful participant mean?

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a speaker with a higher status ina given context.

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what does less powerful participant mean?

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those with less status in a given context

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what does constraints mean?

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ways in which powerful participants may block or control the contributions of less powerful participants. e.g interrupting.

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what does formulation mean?

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the rewording of anothers contribution by a powerful participant to impose a certain meaning or understanding

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what does face mean?

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a persona self esteem or emotional needs.

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what does positive face mean?

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the need to feel wanted,liked and appreciated.

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what does negative face mean?

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the need to have freedom of thought and actiona nd not feel imposed on.

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what does face threatening act mean?

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a communicative act that thretens soemones positive or negative face.

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what does positve and negative politeness stratgies mean?

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stratgies that a speaker might use to make sure or avoide fac threatening acts.

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what does small talk mean?

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talk that is primarily interactional in orinetation and is geared towards establishing relationships

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what does repressive discourse strategy mean?

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a more indirect way of exercising power and control through conversational constraints

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what does opressive discourse strategy mean?

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linguistic behaviour that is open in its exercising of power and control