TY - BOOK ID - 35349528 TI - Power talk: language and interaction in institutional discourse PY - 2002 SN - 0582368790 1317879082 1317879074 1315839172 1138152250 9781317879084 9780582368798 9781315839172 9781317879060 9781317879077 9781138152250 PB - Harlow Pearson Education DB - UniCat KW - Sociolinguistics KW - Business communication. KW - Administrative communication KW - Communication, Administrative KW - Communication, Business KW - Communication, Industrial KW - Industrial communication KW - Communication KW - Business communication KW - E-books UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:35349528 AB - 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 institutional settings, she examines power as an emerging, negotiated phenomenon between participants with different status and goals. Written in a clear style which combines attention to technical detail with accessibility, Power Talk includes: a comprehensive introduction to the theme of power including the analytic approaches to power in language a wide-ranging discussion of theory and practice and, in-depth contemporary case studies. Power Talk is the first book to focus on the topic of power in situated interaction across a range of contexts. As such, it makes a timely, and important contribution to the debate surrounding social power and language use, and will be of value to both students and researchers alike. ER -