Power in Language
Verbal Communication and Social Influence
SAGE Publications Inc (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 13. July 1993
Book
Hardback
238 pages
978-0-8039-4422-0 (ISBN)
Description
The literature review provided by Sik Hung Ng and James J. Bradac is particularly thorough and informative. --Canadian Journal of Communication "This volume, the third in the Language and Language Behaviors Series, fits nicely with the series' aim to reveal ways language behaviors create and revise everyday life. The book provides extremely broad coverage of a vast amount of literature that adopts quite a diversity of positions with regard to how language and power are connected. It is written in a style accessible to students in social psychology, as well as verbal communication, and at the same time tackles questions that should be at the forefront of discussions of researchers in these fields as well." --Nancy Budwig in Journal of Language and
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Language
English
Place of publication
Thousand Oaks
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Weight
440 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8039-4422-0 (9780803944220)
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Content
Introduction
Signs of Power (I) - `Powerful' and `Powerless' Styles
Signs of Power (II) - More Variables, More Issues
Conversational Influence and Control
Mitigation - Be Indirect and Be Tentative
Misleading Words
Masking
Further Issues, Conclusions and Prospects
Signs of Power (I) - `Powerful' and `Powerless' Styles
Signs of Power (II) - More Variables, More Issues
Conversational Influence and Control
Mitigation - Be Indirect and Be Tentative
Misleading Words
Masking
Further Issues, Conclusions and Prospects