The language of power
Identifieur interne : 001343 ( Istex/Curation ); précédent : 001342; suivant : 001344The language of power
Auteurs : Jenny A. ThomasSource :
- Journal of Pragmatics [ 0378-2166 ] ; 1985.
Abstract
The goal of this paper is two-fold. My first aim is simply to describe the systematic way in which a range of pragmatic features were employed by the dominant1 participant in a series of ‘unequal encounters’ in order to restrict severely the discoursal options of the subordinate participant. The features in question are: (i) IFID's (illocutionary force indicating devices); (ii) metapragmatic comments, ‘upshots’ and ‘reformulations’, and (iii) appeal to felicity conditions. My second aim is to argue that we can only satisfactorily explain the effectiveness of these tactics by bringing together insights from both conversational analysis and recent work in interpersonal pragmatics. In so doing, we go some way towards overcoming the limitations of conversational analysis, single-utterance based pragmatic analyses and the problems inherent in ‘speech-act’ descriptions of discourse, and move towards a model of discourse-organisation with greater predictive and explanatory power.
Url:
DOI: 10.1016/0378-2166(85)90003-7
Links toward previous steps (curation, corpus...)
- to stream Istex, to step Corpus: Pour aller vers cette notice dans l'étape Curation :001455
Links to Exploration step
ISTEX:1A575787BE5137964E66B84DB0FAFBC8E7DEC2F2Le document en format XML
<record><TEI wicri:istexFullTextTei="biblStruct"><teiHeader><fileDesc><titleStmt><title>The language of power</title><author><name sortKey="Thomas, Jenny A" sort="Thomas, Jenny A" uniqKey="Thomas J" first="Jenny A." last="Thomas">Jenny A. Thomas</name></author></titleStmt><publicationStmt><idno type="wicri:source">ISTEX</idno><idno type="RBID">ISTEX:1A575787BE5137964E66B84DB0FAFBC8E7DEC2F2</idno><date when="1985" year="1985">1985</date><idno type="doi">10.1016/0378-2166(85)90003-7</idno><idno type="url">https://api.istex.fr/document/1A575787BE5137964E66B84DB0FAFBC8E7DEC2F2/fulltext/pdf</idno><idno type="wicri:Area/Istex/Corpus">001455</idno><idno type="wicri:explorRef" wicri:stream="Istex" wicri:step="Corpus" wicri:corpus="ISTEX">001455</idno><idno type="wicri:Area/Istex/Curation">001343</idno></publicationStmt><sourceDesc><biblStruct><analytic><title level="a">The language of power</title><author><name sortKey="Thomas, Jenny A" sort="Thomas, Jenny A" uniqKey="Thomas J" first="Jenny A." last="Thomas">Jenny A. Thomas</name></author></analytic><monogr></monogr><series><title level="j">Journal of Pragmatics</title><title level="j" type="abbrev">PRAGMA</title><idno type="ISSN">0378-2166</idno><imprint><publisher>ELSEVIER</publisher><date type="published" when="1985">1985</date><biblScope unit="volume">9</biblScope><biblScope unit="issue">6</biblScope><biblScope unit="page" from="765">765</biblScope><biblScope unit="page" to="783">783</biblScope></imprint><idno type="ISSN">0378-2166</idno></series><idno type="istex">1A575787BE5137964E66B84DB0FAFBC8E7DEC2F2</idno><idno type="DOI">10.1016/0378-2166(85)90003-7</idno><idno type="PII">0378-2166(85)90003-7</idno></biblStruct></sourceDesc><seriesStmt><idno type="ISSN">0378-2166</idno></seriesStmt></fileDesc><profileDesc><textClass></textClass><langUsage><language ident="en">en</language></langUsage></profileDesc></teiHeader><front><div type="abstract" xml:lang="en">The goal of this paper is two-fold. My first aim is simply to describe the systematic way in which a range of pragmatic features were employed by the dominant1 participant in a series of ‘unequal encounters’ in order to restrict severely the discoursal options of the subordinate participant. The features in question are: (i) IFID's (illocutionary force indicating devices); (ii) metapragmatic comments, ‘upshots’ and ‘reformulations’, and (iii) appeal to felicity conditions. My second aim is to argue that we can only satisfactorily explain the effectiveness of these tactics by bringing together insights from both conversational analysis and recent work in interpersonal pragmatics. In so doing, we go some way towards overcoming the limitations of conversational analysis, single-utterance based pragmatic analyses and the problems inherent in ‘speech-act’ descriptions of discourse, and move towards a model of discourse-organisation with greater predictive and explanatory power.</div></front></TEI></record>Pour manipuler ce document sous Unix (Dilib)
EXPLOR_STEP=$WICRI_ROOT/Wicri/Rhénanie/explor/UnivTrevesV1/Data/Istex/Curation
HfdSelect -h $EXPLOR_STEP/biblio.hfd -nk 001343 | SxmlIndent | more
Ou
HfdSelect -h $EXPLOR_AREA/Data/Istex/Curation/biblio.hfd -nk 001343 | SxmlIndent | more
Pour mettre un lien sur cette page dans le réseau Wicri
{{Explor lien
|wiki= Wicri/Rhénanie
|area= UnivTrevesV1
|flux= Istex
|étape= Curation
|type= RBID
|clé= ISTEX:1A575787BE5137964E66B84DB0FAFBC8E7DEC2F2
|texte= The language of power
}}
| This area was generated with Dilib version V0.6.31. |  |