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1st Edition

Power Talk Language and Interaction in Institutional Discourse

By Joanna Thornborrow Copyright 2002
156 Pages
by Routledge

156 Pages
by Routledge

156 Pages
by Routledge
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The concept of social power, who holds it and how they use it is a widely debated subject particularly in the field of discourse analysis, and the wider arena of sociolinguistics. In her new book, Joanna Thornborrow challenges the received notion that power is necessarily held by some speakers and not by others. Through the detailed analysis of communication and interaction within a range of... Read more
1. Power, talk and institutional discourse: some key concepts 2. Perspectives on power: approaches to the critical analysis of language and interaction 3. Institutional discourse as asymmetrical talk: power and the orderly interaction in a police interview 4. Questions and control: managing talk in a radio phone-in 5. Resources for control: discursive strategies in media interviews 6. Participation and control: the organisation of classroom discussion talk 7. Power and institutional interaction: some conclusions BibliographyIndex

Biography

Joanna Thornborrow is Senior Lecturer in the Centre for Language and Communication Research at Cardiff University. She is widely published, recently guest-editing a special issue of Discourse Studies with Theo Van Leeuwen on authenticity in media discourse, and is co-author of Patterns in Language: An Introduction to Language and Literary Style with Sh®n Wareing. She is a founder member, and co-organiser, of the Ross Priory Seminar Group on Broadcast Talk.

...'a welcome addition to the debate on the relationship between language and power, especially as it is not written from a single theoretical perspective...'

'Thornborrow's attempt to move debates into 'a more empirical domain' is one of the strengths of the book.'

Joanna Thornborrow. Power in Talk: Language and Interaction in Institutional Discourse

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