Power through discourse
By: edited by Leah Kedar.
Contributors: Kedar, Leah.; American Anthropological Association. Meeting; Symposium on Language and Power (1982 : Washington, D.C.)
Publisher: Ablex Pub. Corp.
Published: 1987
Place of publication: Norwood, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
Subjects: Language and languages -- Political aspects -- Congresses; Power (Social sciences) -- Congresses; Sociolinguistics -- Congresses
Notes: Includes bibliographies and indexes.
"Papers ... with the exception of one subsequently invited philosophical piece, were presented in the Symposium on Language and Power at the American Anthropological Association meetings of 1982"--Introd.
Table of contents: title: Remarks on discourse and power / Deborah Tannen; title: Language in political anthropology / Jack McIver Weatherford; title: The powers of language / S. Jack Odell; title: Conversational power in FBI covert tape recordings / Roger W. Shuy; title: Linguistic manipulation, power, and the legal setting / Anne Graffam Walker; title: The social organization of questions and answers in courtroom discourse / Susan Urmston Philips; title: Political talk / Michael H. Agar; title: Analytic ambiguities in the communication of familial power / Hervé Varenne; title: On the necessity of collusion in conversation / R.P. McDermott and Henry Tylbor.