Lanuage And Occupation Flashcards
John swales
Once you start work you become a member of a professional community which has a set of professional practices and share specialist knowledge and certain values
Discourse commuti3es
Horvak
The shift from work talk to personal talk is always initiated by the highest ranking person in the room
Drew and heritage
Differences between everyday talk and workplace talk
Goal oreientated, turn taking, allowable contributions, professional lexis, structure, asymmetry
Grices maxims
Rules needed to be applied to a conversation in order to make them successful
The maxim of quantity
Quality
Relations
Manner
Goffman face theory
Positive face
Negative face
Face threatening act
Howard Giles matched guise study
Prefer RP over brum
What did hergard say?
Initialises,acronyms and other jargon make the workplace more efficient
What did fairclough say?
Power in discourse- how power relationships are demonstrated through language
Power behind discourse- power dynamic between two speakers itself
What did Sian wearing say?
3 types of power
Political,personal,social group
What did french and raven say?
6 types of power
Legitimate,referent,expert,information,reward,coercive power
What did koester say?
Phatic talk language used to establish connections and social interaction rather than covenying in for lie greeting and small talk
What does bates say?
Gendered language and exclusion- in informal convos at work women can be covertly excluded from participation and a sense of unity throug the use of sexual,athletic and military language