Abstract Language is an important means through which power relations are created and
negotiated. In addition to everyday choices speakers make about their own language use …

Language use is a form of social action and, as such, is saturated with power relations as is
social practice more generally; but in linguistics, surprisingly little sustained or systematic …

The concept of social power, who holds it and how they use it is a widely debated subject
particularly in the field of discourse analysis, and the wider arena of sociolinguistics. In her …

This paper argues that closer attention to social factors, and especially to power relations,
may enrich the theoretical study of language. It takes its departure from Searle's work in the …

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 …

In analyzing discourse, many researchers assume that all speakers proceed along similar
lines of interpretation. But Gumperz 1982 makes clear that this is so only to the extent that …

(Department editor's note:) Our ability to use language to get what we want is with us from
the day we utter our first words. When we refer to the power of language, we often mean its …

Language is not simply a tool for communication-symbolic power struggles underlie any
speech act, discourse move, or verbal interaction, be it in face-to-face conversations, online …

How does language work—or fail to work—and, why? How do people use language to
generate influence and control? What processes underlie the formation of a powerful or …

There is now an ample data base which indicates that certain forms of language lead
message recipients to attribute high social power to the communicators who use these forms …