Quotations - Language and Power Flashcards
What example can I use for Asymmetrical court room discourse?
Sandra Harris - Language and Communication
The form and function of threats in the courtroom
What examples can I use of the Magistrate?
Closed Question “do you understand?”
Repeating question as a declarative “you understand?”
Adverb phrase “then you’ll go to prison”
What examples can I use of Mr A?
Simple non-standard interjection “yeh”
Tag question with bald on record “I’d have paid before wouldn’t I?”
What example can I use for uncooperative Asymmetrical parent and child discourse?
Fran Pridham
The Language of Conversation
Matt and his Mother
What examples can I use of Matt and his Mother?
Uncooperative adjacency pairs:
“what?” “I don’t care”
“are you going to do your bedroom?” “no”
“what?” “go away”
“please Matt…” “no”
What example can I use for Journalists and MPs?
Boris Johnson being interviewed by Eddie Mair in 2013
About accusations made against Johnson in a Documentary
What examples can I use of Eddie Mair?
Adverbial “after you made up a quote” with verb phrase “made up”
Interrogative with same verb phrase “why did you make up a quote?”
Butting in interruption of pseudomitigated declarative “let me ask you about a barefaced lie” where noun phrase “barefaced lie” is challenging
Rhetorical tag question “you’re a nasty piece of work aren’t you?”
What examples can I use of Boris Johnson?
Interrogative “why don’t we talk about something else?’
where pronoun “something” is vague
What examples can I use of political speeches/rhetoric?
Tony Blair’s 2001 speech
Winston Churchill’s 1940 speech
David Cameron’s 2013 speech at the Conservative Party Conference
What examples can I use of Tony Blair?
Declarative:
Our top priority was, is, and always will be education, education, education
What examples can I use of Winston Churchill?
We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets
What examples can I use of David Cameron?
List of 3:
independent, forthright, passionate
What example can I use of persuasive language?
Save the Bees persuasive leaflet
What examples can I use of Save the Bees?
Imperative: Save the Bees
Repetition of declarative “we can all do our bit to help save the bees”
Emotive Verbs: “plummeted”, “endangered”, “extinct”
Facts and statistics “Plummeted by 90%”
Conditional interrogative: “if not you and I, who else?”
What example can I use of employer and employee with extreme asymmetrical power?
Language and Discrimination:
Celia Roberts, Evelyn Davies and Tom Jupp
