The Expression of Inequality in Interaction
Power, dominance, and status
Published on 12. June 2014
Book
Hardback
267 pages
978-90-272-5653-9 (ISBN)
Description
In keeping with the profile of Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, this volume presents and discusses issues that are central to aspects of social inequality, power, dominance and status as expressed in discourse in its broadest sense. The volume aggregates research efforts of the past years, and it constitutes a point of departure for future studies. The contributions challenge the widespread assumption that concepts such as inequality, power, dominance and status are predetermined in discourse; the volume, including contributions by international scholars from various disciplines such as linguistics, sociology and social psychology rather emphasizes the co-constructedness of these concepts in ordinary discourse and thus advances the potential for insights into how aspects of inequality, power, dominance and status are both made and understood.
This volume has been designed to promote recent research on a classic topic, relating discursive, cognitive and social dimensions of inequality in most of the social sciences and the humanities.
The volume aims at an international readership, making this book of interest to both researchers and advanced students in linguistic pragmatics, usage-based linguistics, ethnography of speaking, sociology and social psychology.
This volume has been designed to promote recent research on a classic topic, relating discursive, cognitive and social dimensions of inequality in most of the social sciences and the humanities.
The volume aims at an international readership, making this book of interest to both researchers and advanced students in linguistic pragmatics, usage-based linguistics, ethnography of speaking, sociology and social psychology.
Reviews / Votes
This volume will prove useful to students of Sociolinguistics, Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics, Sociology, Psychology, and any other academic field attempting to find patterns in the connections between power dynamics and their manifestation in language. This volume offers a wider understanding of interactional inequality encoded by language, substantially expanding the potential of linguistic inquiry into discursive and pragmatic power dynamics by utilizing extensive and recent data from linguistic corpora, discourse analysis, traditional media outlets (i.e. political campaigns, radio, etc.) and innovative unions of social-psychological frameworks with linguistic models. -- Timothy Jewell, California State University, Fullerton, on Linguist List Vol. 26.1819 (April 2015)More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
+ index
Weight
630 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-272-5653-9 (9789027256539)
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Hanna Pishwa | Rainer Schulze
The Expression of Inequality in Interaction
Power, dominance, and status
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06/2014
1st Edition
John Benjamins Publishing Company
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Content
1. The expression of inequality in interaction. Power, dominance and status: An introduction (by Schulze, Rainer); 2. Part I. Focus on third persons; 3. Representing inequality in language: Words as social categorizers of experience (by Schulze, Rainer); 4. Sexual network partners in Tanzania: Labels, power, and the systemic muting of women's health and identity (by Harman, Jennifer); 5. A "rape victim" by any other name: The effects of labels on individuals' rate-related perceptions (by Hockett, Jericho M.); 6. Unveiling the phantom of the "Islamic takeover": A critical, cognitive-linguistic analysis of the discursive perpetuation of an Orientalist (by Langlotz, Andreas); 7. Power eliciting elements at the semantic-pragmatic interface: Data from cyberbullying and virtual character assassination attempts (by Marx, Konstanze); 8. Part II. Focus on speaker/author; 9. Powerless language: Hedges as cues for interpersonal functions (by Pishwa, Hanna); 10. A true authoritarian type: How fonts can facilitate positive opinions for powerful groups (by Donahue, John); 11. We and I, and you and them: People, power and solidarity (by Fetzer, Anita); 12. Language, normativity and power: The discursive construction of objectophilia (by Motschenbacher, Heiko); 13. Subject index