The Exercise of Power in Communication

1. Power Exercise: Devices, Reception, and Reactions; Hanna Pishwa and Rainer Schulze PART I: SOCIAL ASPECTS OF POWER EXERCISE IN LINGUISTICS 2. The Significance of 'The Social' in Contemporary Linguistics; Rainer Schulze 3. Meaning Ruptures and Meaningful Eruptions in the Service of Rhetoric: Populist Flare-up Hits the Greek Political Pitch; Eliza Kitis and E. Dimitris Kitis PART II: LINGUISTIC CUES FOR POWER EXERCISE AND PERSUASION 4. Power Under the Veil of Democracy; Anders Hougaard 5. Information Source as Persuasive Power in Political Interviews: The Case of Obama; Hanna Pishwa 6. Using Language as a Weapon: Verbal Manifestations of Contemporary Anti-Semitism; Monika Schwarz-Friesel PART III: LINGUISTIC ELEMENTS AND THEIR INFLUENCE ON THE RECIPIENT 7. Gender, Power, and the Human Voice; Alexandra Suppes 8. Leveraging Processing to Understand Linguistic Cues, Power, and Persuasion; Traci Craig, Kevin L. Blankenship, and Annie Lewis 9. Powerful and Powerless Speech Styles and their Relationship to Perceived Dominance and Control; Lawrence Hosman 10. Language Intensity as an Expression of Power in Political MessageS; Mark A. Hamilton PART IV: FOCUS ON THE INFLUENCE OF POWERFUL MESSAGES AND REACTIONS 11. Persuasion and Psychological Reactance: The Effects of Explicit, High-controlling Language; Claude H. Miller 12. Antidominance as a Motive of Low-power Groups in Conflict; P. J. Henry 13. Understanding Power in Social Context: How Power Relates to Language and Communication in Line with Responsibilities or Opportunities; Annika Scholl, Naomi Ellemers, Kai Sassenberg, and Daan Scheepers