Full Description
This book explores the various choices speakers or communicators make when expressing power relations in modern societies. The volume brings together several disciplines, such as linguistics, sociology, communication studies and social psychology, to give insight into how interactants co-construct different aspects of power in their everyday life.
Contents
1. Power Exercise: Devices, Reception, and Reactions; Hanna Pishwa and Rainer Schulze PART I: SOCIAL ASPECTS OF POWER EXERCISE IN LINGUISTICS 2. The Significance of 'The Social' in Contemporary Linguistics; Rainer Schulze 3. Meaning Ruptures and Meaningful Eruptions in the Service of Rhetoric: Populist Flare-up Hits the Greek Political Pitch; Eliza Kitis and E. Dimitris Kitis PART II: LINGUISTIC CUES FOR POWER EXERCISE AND PERSUASION 4. Power Under the Veil of Democracy; Anders Hougaard 5. Information Source as Persuasive Power in Political Interviews: The Case of Obama; Hanna Pishwa 6. Using Language as a Weapon: Verbal Manifestations of Contemporary Anti-Semitism; Monika Schwarz-Friesel PART III: LINGUISTIC ELEMENTS AND THEIR INFLUENCE ON THE RECIPIENT 7. Gender, Power, and the Human Voice; Alexandra Suppes 8. Leveraging Processing to Understand Linguistic Cues, Power, and Persuasion; Traci Craig, Kevin L. Blankenship, and Annie Lewis 9. Powerful and Powerless Speech Styles and their Relationship to Perceived Dominance and Control; Lawrence Hosman 10. Language Intensity as an Expression of Power in Political MessageS; Mark A. Hamilton PART IV: FOCUS ON THE INFLUENCE OF POWERFUL MESSAGES AND REACTIONS 11. Persuasion and Psychological Reactance: The Effects of Explicit, High-controlling Language; Claude H. Miller 12. Antidominance as a Motive of Low-power Groups in Conflict; P. J. Henry 13. Understanding Power in Social Context: How Power Relates to Language and Communication in Line with Responsibilities or Opportunities; Annika Scholl, Naomi Ellemers, Kai Sassenberg, and Daan Scheepers
