Occupation Theories/Concepts

Question 1

H Giles: Accommodation Theory

Answer 1

Using convergence/divergence to adjust to the audience or show power/distance/dislike/formality.

Question 2

Holmes (1998)

Answer 2

Women managers seem to be more likely to negotiate consensus than male managers, they are less likely to ‘plough through the agenda’, taking time to make sure everyone genuinely agrees with what has been decided.

Question 3

Herbert and Straight (1989)

Answer 3

Compliments tend to flow from those of higher rank to those of lower rank.

Question 4

Swales (1990)

Answer 4

Once you start work, you become a member of a professional community, which has a set of professional practices and shares specialist knowledge and certain values. These groups are called discourse communities.

Question 5

Grice’s Maxims

Answer 5

Maxims of relevance, manner, quality and quantity in conservation.

Question 6

Wenger

Answer 6

Communities of Practice: groups of people who share a concern or passion for something they do and learn how to do it better as they interact regularly