Language and Power

Question 1

The law, police, armed forces and barbwire

Answer 1

Hard Power

Question 2

Fashion, commodities, products and identities

Answer 2

Soft Power

Question 3

The theory or science of the methods or grounds of knowledge e.g. how do we know what we know & what is knowledge?

Answer 3

Epistemology

Question 4

People understanding of the world is historically and culturally specific. Forms of structuring knowledge connected with issues of power

Answer 4

Foucault

Question 5

Mapping Power

Answer 5

Mercator Projection

Question 6

Religious instruction, medicine, parliamentary legislation in writing

Answer 6

Overt

Question 7

Journalism, advertising, arts and literature in writing

Answer 7

Covert

Question 8

Not just a way of speaking, “mental set” and ideology enclosing the thinking of members in a society

Answer 8

Discourse

Question 9

Relationship between how something is said to an addressee
used to refer behavior that expresses positive concern for others

Answer 9

Politeness

Question 10

Interruption, control of topic, control turn-taking, control of speech

Answer 10

Power and everyday discourse

Question 11

Asserting, Questioning and Ordering

Answer 11

Direct Speech Arts