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Power and Politeness in Action - Disagreements in Oral Communication (Hardcover)
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Power and Politeness in Action - Disagreements in Oral Communication (Hardcover)
Series: Language, Power and Social Process [LPSP]
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This study investigates the interface of power and politeness in
the realization of disagreements in naturalistic language data.
Power and politeness are important phenomena in face-to-face
interaction. Disagreement is an arena in which these two key
concepts are likely to be observed together: both disagreement and
the exercise of power entail a conflict, and, at the same time,
conflict will often be softened by the display of politeness
(defined as marked relational work). The concept of power is of
special interest to the field of linguistics in that language is
one of the primary means to exercise power. Often correlated with
status and regarded as an influential aspect of situated speech,
the workings of the exercise of power, however, have rarely been
formally articulated. This study provides a theoretical framework
within which to analyze the observed instances of disagreement and
their co-occurrence with the exercise of power and display of
politeness. In this framework, a checklist of propositions that
allow us to operationalize the concept of power and identify its
exercise in naturalistic linguistic data is combined with a view of
language as socially constructed. A qualitative approach is used to
analyze the concepts of power and politeness. The material for
analysis comes from three different contexts: (1) a sociable
argument in an informal, supportive and interactive family setting,
(2) a business meeting among colleagues within a research
institution, and (3) examples from public discourse collected
during the US Election 2000.
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