Power C&Ts

• What are French and Raven's six power bases?

  Reward, Coercive, Legitimate, Referent, Expert and Informational.
• What are the four types of power in language?

  Influential- implicit (advertising)Instrumental- explicit (by law)Political- balanceAsymmetrical/symmetrical - enforcing
• What are Lakoff's three politeness principles?

  1)give options 2) do not impose 3) make listener feel good
• What is Sacks et al?

  1. speakers take turns 2) interruptions are brief 3) transitions have little to no gap 4) Agenda and time of conversation isn't decided beforehand 5) Turns - range from a single word to multiple utterances
• What are Grice's four power maxims?

  Quantity, quality, relevance, manner
• What does Howard Giles' Accommodation Theory suggest?

  We adjust our speech to accommodate others and commonly convergence occurs
• What are the six pairs of contrasts in the Difference Model?

  Status Vs Support, Orders Vs Proposal, Conflict Vs Compromise, Information Vs Feelings, Independence Vs Intimacy and Advice Vs Understanding
• Which theorist argued that language is a tool of power in the workplace?


  Vgotsky