Power in language : verbal communication and social influence
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Power in language : verbal communication and social influence
（Language and language behaviors, vol. 3）
Sage Publications, c1993
- : cloth
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-218) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The literature review provided by Sik Hung Ng and James J. Bradac is particularly thorough and informative. --Canadian Journal of Communication "This volume, the third in the Language and Language Behaviors Series, fits nicely with the series' aim to reveal ways language behaviors create and revise everyday life. The book provides extremely broad coverage of a vast amount of literature that adopts quite a diversity of positions with regard to how language and power are connected. It is written in a style accessible to students in social psychology, as well as verbal communication, and at the same time tackles questions that should be at the forefront of discussions of researchers in these fields as well." --Nancy Budwig in Journal of Language and
Table of Contents
Introduction
Signs of Power (I) - `Powerful' and `Powerless' Styles
Signs of Power (II) - More Variables, More Issues
Conversational Influence and Control
Mitigation - Be Indirect and Be Tentative
Misleading Words
Masking
Further Issues, Conclusions and Prospects
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