Language and power Flashcards
1
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Power participant
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A speaker with a higher status in a given context
2
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Influential power
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Power used to influence or persuade
3
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Instrumental power
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Power used to maintain and enforce authority
4
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political power
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Held by politicians, the police and those working in the law courts
5
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Personal power
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Those who hold power as a result of their occupation or role like teachers and employers
6
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Social group power
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Those who hold power as a result of social variables such as gender, class and age
7
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Power in discourse
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Situations where power relationships are set up and enacted
8
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Power behind discourse
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Organisations of institutions and the effects of those power relations on various uses of language
