The Expression of Inequality in Interaction
Power, dominance, and status
1st Edition
Published on 12. June 2014
VI, 267 pages
978-90-272-7005-4 (ISBN)
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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.
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Power, dominance, and status
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- The Expression of Inequality in Interaction
- Editorial page
- Title page
- LCC data
- Table of contents
- The expression of inequality in interaction. Power, dominance, and status: An introduction
- The chapters
- Part I: Focus on third persons
- Part II: Focus on speaker/author
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Part I. Focus on third persons
- Representing inequality in language: Words as social categorizers of experience
- 1. Introduction: Aim of the inquiry and key research questions
- 2. Language and "dominance", "inequality", "power" and "status"
- 3. Corpus and method: Combining quantitative and qualitative approaches
- 4. Findings: Quantitative and qualitative evidence
- 5. Findings: Refining the collocational profile
- 6. On the interaction of words, context and patterns or constructions
- 7. Conclusion
- References
- Sexual network partners in Tanzania: Labels, power, and the systemic muting of women's health and id
- 1. Background
- 2. Method
- 3. Results
- 4. Discussion
- 5. Conclusions
- Acknowledgements
- References
- A "rape victim" by any other name: The effects of labels on individuals' rape-related perceptions
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Synthesis of theories on social power and language
- 3. Past research on the denotations, connotations, and self-conceptualizations as "rape victims" ver
- 4. New research on perceptions of "rape victims" versus "rape survivors"
- 5. Discussion
- 6. Moving beyond the "victim" and "survivor" labels
- 7. Conclusion
- References
- Unveiling the phantom of the "Islamic takeover": A critical, cognitive-linguistic analysis of the di
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Manipulating consent and the perpetuation of hegemonic ideologies
- 3. Manipulating consent through metaphorical ICMs
- 4. Lifting the veil - Analysis/discussion of the findings
- 5. Assimilating the world to the model: Constructing the desired facts
- 6. Conclusion
- References
- Power eliciting elements at the semantic-pragmatic interface: Data from cyberbullying and virtual ch
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Power in the context of CB and VCA
- 3. Convergence processes between real and virtual reality in an uncontrollable communication sphere
- 4. Semantic aspects of power
- 5. Discourse level: Context as a power-eliciting item
- 6. Conclusion
- References
- Part II. Focus on speaker/author
- Powerless language: Hedges as cues for interpersonal functions
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Power
- 3. Power/-lessness and language
- 4. Linguistic cues for powerlessness
- 5. Influence of powerless style
- 6. Discussion
- 7. Conclusions
- References
- A true authoritarian type: How fonts can facilitate positive opinions for powerful groups
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Psychological concepts
- 3. Study 1
- 4. Study 2
- 5. Conclusion
- References
- Appendix A
- Appendix B
- We and I, and you and them: People, power and solidarity
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Political discourse in context
- 3. Pronouns in context
- 4. Doing dominance in political discourse
- 5. Conclusion
- References
- Language, normativity and power: The discursive construction of objectophilia
- 1. Introduction: Sexual normativity, discourse and power
- 2. Objectophilia
- 3. Data and method
- 4. Sexual desire, identity and normativity in conversations on objectophilia
- 5. Conclusion
- References
- Appendix
- Subject index
