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Miriam A. Locher, Power and politeness in action: Disagreements in oral communication

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 October 2006

Douglas J. Glick
Douglas J. Glick
Affiliation:
Anthropology/Linguistics, Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY 13902, dglick@binghamton.edu
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Miriam A. Locher, Power and politeness in action: Disagreements in oral communication. Language, Power and Social Process, 12. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2004. Pp. xvi, 365. Pb.

This is a study of the interface between power and politeness as manifested in verbal disagreements. It begins with a number of chapters devoted to a discussion of the key concepts that define the author's theoretical conceptualization of social interaction. These concepts are power, communication, relational work, and politeness. The author then applies the model to four (transcribed) interactions. The first, and most extensively analyzed, is a dinner conversation among friends and acquaintances. The second is an organizational meeting in a physics laboratory. The final two come from official transcripts of a radio interview of President Clinton and Supreme Court proceedings relating to the vote count in the U.S presidential elections of 2000. Common to them all, in the author's view, are instances of disagreement.

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Language in Society , Volume 35 , Issue 5 , November 2006 , pp. 729 - 733
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© 2006 Cambridge University Press

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