Language And Occupation Theories Flashcards
Jenny chapman
Jargon masks real meaning
Jargon hinders understanding and is unnecessary
Plain English campaign
Campaign to use less jargon, so that things are generally easier to understand
Colleen Glenney
Jargon condenses meaning and allows you to share information more effectively
Positives of jargon
More efficient communication
Can withhold/ hide information from others
Builds communities
Holds prestige
Negatives of jargon
Excludes others
Hard to learn
Meaningless/ not needed
Can cause confusion
Swales
Discourse communities-groups that have goals or purposes, and use communication to achieve these goals
Koestar
People in the workplace use interpersonal markers to help us negotiate and connect
Phatic talk- a verbal or non verbal communication that has a social function
Drew + heritage
Members of a discourse community will share the same inferences to make it easier to communicate
institutional talk differs from ordinary conversation
Accommodation theory
People converge to fit the standards of those around them
People can also diverge to distance themselves from others
Goffman’s face theory
Talked about FTA (face threatening acts) which are acts which threaten people’s emotional needs and self esteem
positive face = the need to feel wanted, liked and appreciated
negative face= the need to have freedom of thought and not to be imposed on
Holmes’s and Stubbs
“Doing power”- power is used by superiors in workplaces as a way of carrying out their occupational role
Fairclough
Asymmetrical power- a noticable difference in the power status of the individuals involved in discourse
OBarr and Atkins
Courtroom study- found that Lakoff’s principals of women’s speech (powerless language) weren’t necessarily done by women, but by powerless people
Shaw
Found that women are more told off than men when they interrupt in parliament, and also tend to stick to the rules more than men
Mullany
found that both male and female bosses dominated conversations in meetings, but women were more likely to be criticized by employees for doing so
