Language, Society and Power: An Introduction, 2nd Edition by Linda Thomas, Shân Wareing, Ishtla Singh, Jean Stilwell

By Linda Thomas, Shân Wareing, Ishtla Singh, Jean Stilwell Peccei, Joanna Thornborrow, Jason Jones

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An introductory text which covers a wide range of social and linguistic issues. Fairclough, Norman, Language and Power (2nd edition), London: Longman, 2001. Linguistic analysis of political and advertising texts. See in particular Chapter 3, ‘Discourse and power’. Klein, Naomi, No Logo, London: Flamingo, 2000. A political text for the layperson, critically analysing the ideological mechanisms of consumerism and branding. 1 Introduction On 2 July 2001, three underground trains on the London Victoria line were halted in a tunnel, where they remained for over an hour.

In this example, what variety of language you speak, and how you make use of that variety, are sources of power. Power can also be played out in other ways in ordinary conversation, and we all have experience of this; indeed it is probably true to say that power is a dimension of every single conversation we have, in one way or another. This extract from Ian McEwan’s novel Atonement illustrates two characters, Cecilia and Mrs Jarvis, battling for power in a conversation. Briony has visited her sister, Cecilia, and has not so far been invited in, so both are in the hall of Cecilia’s lodgings 1111 2 3 4 5 6 7111 8 9 10 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 20111 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 30 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 40 41111 At that moment, the door snapped open and the landlady stood right in front of Briony, so close to her that she could smell peppermint on the woman’s breath.

No important information is being exchanged, but you are both indicating that you are willing to talk to one another, are pleased to see one another, and so on. In this book, we’re largely concerned with the first two functions of language: its referential function and its affective impact. These two functions are the ones most clearly associated with power. e. how we represent the world around us and the effects of those representations on the way we think, as the letter above about the language of Ofsted reports highlighted).

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