Status and power in verbal interaction : a study of discourse in a close-knit social network / Julie Diamond.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Diamond, Julie.

Series:

Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser. 40.

Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser. 40

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Discourse analysis--Social aspects.

Discourse analysis.

Power (Social sciences).

Sociolinguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (188 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, c1996.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Status and Power in Verbal Interaction is a sociolinguistic study of conversation in a social context. Using an ethnographic methodology and a network analysis of the social roles and relationships in a particular language community, the book explores how speakers negotiate status, relationship, and ultimately contest power through discourse. Of chief concern to the study is how speakers manage to negotiate relationship roles - which here consists of institutional status as well as the more variable social standing - using conversation. Discourse is seen to be not only what people say,

Contents:

STATUS AND POWER IN VERBAL INTERACTION; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Acknowledgments; Chapter One: Introduction; Chapter Two: Language in a Social Context; Chapter Three: Verbal Interaction: Balancing Individual and Group Wants; Chapter Four: The Consensual View of Power inDiscourse; Chapter Five: Conflict and Competition in Discourse; Chapter Six: Power and Status in the Community; Appendix; Bibliography; Subject Index; Author Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786613222053

90-272-8268-4

1-283-22205-1

OCLC:

750183115