street car named desire terminology

Question 1

what is the accommodation theory?

Answer 1

changing your language
upward convergence –> e.g. mitch
downwards convergence –> e.g, stella

Question 2

what does hegemonic masculinity mean?

Answer 2

view of society about what it is to be masculine

Question 3

what does hegemonic femininity mean?

Answer 3

view of society about what it is to be feminine

Question 4

name the three different powers and describe what they mean

Answer 4

positional power-hierarchy
knowledge power- intellectual
personal power- power in a social situation

Question 5

what does positive politeness refer to?

Answer 5

ensuring that others feel appreciated, its a strategy that speakers adapt to preserve face in light of an upsetting situation

Question 6

what does negative politeness refer to?

Answer 6

concerned with protecting the speaker from an upsetting situation by ensuring that others are not imposed upon

Question 7

what does impoliteness refer too?

Answer 7

taboo, negative personal evaluation, dismissal, silencer, threats, insincere politeness, non-verbal gesture

Question 8

what are the 4 Grice’s maxims

Answer 8

maxims of quantity- one tries to be informative and give as much info as needed
maxims of quality- one tries to be truthful and doesn’t give info that is false
maxims of relation- one tries to be relevant and say things that are pertinent
maxims of manner- one tries to be as clear, as brief and as orderly as one can be in what one says and avoids obscurity and ambiguity

Question 9

How does someone have power in dialogue

Answer 9

Turn taking, interruptions, terms of address, speech acts

Question 10

How does social deixis link to power

Answer 10

A category for words and expression that encode a speakers attitude towards another person

Question 11

How does asymmetry represent power

Answer 11

A power imbalance between speakers shown by the unequal way they address eachother

Question 12

What sentence type is commissioned

Answer 12

A speech act that pledges to a future action

Question 13

What sentence type is assertive

Answer 13

A speech act that commits the speaker to the truth of what they’re saying

Question 14

What sentence type is expressive

Answer 14

A speech act that expresses the speakers feelings and attitudes towards the proposition

Question 15

Adjacency pairs

Answer 15

One person speaks and then the others