Power through discourse / edited by Leah Kedar.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Kedar, Leah.

American Anthropological Association. Meeting. 1982 : Washington, D.C.)

Conference Name:

Symposium on Language and Power (1982 : Washington, D.C.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language and languages--Political aspects--Congresses.

Language and languages--Political aspects.

Power (Social sciences)--Congresses.

Power (Social sciences).

Sociolinguistics--Congresses.

Sociolinguistics.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

viii, 176 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Norwood, N.J. : Ablex Pub. Corp., 1987.

Summary:

This volume represents an interdisciplinary approach to the study of language and behavior in both formal public negotiation, as well as less formal communicative interaction settings. Its central theme is that language use plays a crucial role in the attainment and/or exercise of power. The notion of power, in this context, is seen as the measure of one's ability or inability to obtain or maintain personal objectives through discourse. The contributions focus specifically upon interaction between individual discourse strategies and the exercise of power.

Contents:

Remarks on discourse and power / Deborah Tannen

Language in political anthropology / Jack McIver Weatherford

The powers of language / S. Jack Odell

Conversational power in FBI covert tape recordings / Roger W. Shuy

Linguistic manipulation, power, and the legal setting / Anne Graffam Walker

The social organization of questions and answers in courtroom discourse / Susan Urmston Philips

Political talk / Michael H. Agar

Analytic ambiguities in the communication of familial power / Hervé Varenne

On the necessity of collusion in conversation / R.P. McDermott and Henry Tylbor.

Notes:

"Papers ... with the exception of one subsequently invited philosophical piece, were presented in the Symposium on Language and Power at the American Anthropological Association meetings of 1982"--Introd.

Includes bibliographies and indexes.

ISBN:

0893913286

OCLC:

15016226