Language and Occupation Flashcards
1
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What is Jargon/restricted lexis?
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Words specific to an occupation
2
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What is an example of jargon/restricted lexis?
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- “voir dire”
- “CTD” (circling the drain)
3
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What are Goffman’s “In Group Codes” ?
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- Jargon marks who’s in our group
- through status, unity and precision
4
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What is Goffman’s Frontstage and Backstage language?
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- Frontstage: work/professional identity
- Backstage: everything else
- both performative
5
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What are Goffman’s Asymmetrical conversations?
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6
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What is Giles’ Accomodation Theory?
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- Convergence: sound more like interlocutor
- Divergence: sound less like interlocutor
- done to establish comity or for status
7
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What are Drew and Heritage’s Service Encounters?
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- A transactional interaction that’s usually scripted
- 3 steps: - opening and offer of
service
- negotiation of service
- closing and leave taking
8
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What are Drew and Heritage’s workplace conversations?
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- they’re goal directed
- there are certain “allowable contributions”
9
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What is Swales’s Discourse Structure?
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A set of patterns that allow you to identify a text
10
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What is Swales’s Discourse Community?
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Being familiar with a discourse structure through knowing lexical choices and topics
11
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What is Brown and Levinson’s Face Theory?
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- Positive face: self image
- Negative face: right to self determination
- Negative face threats are typical within work contracts
12
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What is Zimmerman and West’s Dominance Model?
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- Asymmetrical conversations dont follow no gap, no overlap
- Higher status speakers interrupt/overlap lower status speakers
