Status and Power in Verbal Interaction: A Study of Discourse by Julie Diamond

By Julie Diamond

Status and gear in Verbal Interaction is a sociolinguistic research of dialog in a social context. utilizing an ethnographic method and a community research of the social roles and relationships in a specific language neighborhood, the booklet explores how audio system negotiate prestige, dating, and eventually contest energy via discourse. Of leader challenge to the examine is how audio system be ready to negotiate dating roles — which the following includes institutional prestige in addition to the extra variable social status — utilizing dialog. Discourse is visible to be not just what humans say, yet how they are saying it — how audio system take the ground, carry new subject to the ground, interrupt one another, and develop into a source individual in a talk. The examine revolves round the concept that energy, whereas intricately tied to social status and institutional prestige, is greater than the sum of one’s institutional status, age, schooling, race and gender. although those components exhibit rank, conversants still use discourse to jockey for place and contest their relational position vis-a-vis their discourse companions. whereas institutional status will be roughly fastened, energy of relational roles fluctuates significantly simply because, because the research indicates, energy is accorded via a strategy of ratifying the confident self-image of a speaker. hence, one’s status in a bunch is a neighborhood negotiation. through investigating strength in group at a micro-level of study, this learn provides a brand new measurement to present understandings of energy.

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The rest, or 78%, have their primary social relationships with other members. Furthermore, many of the social contacts were reciprocal. The density also yields another feature within the network. The reciprocal namings result in clusters, or high density segments within the overall network. These 42 JULIE DIAMOND clusters are like sub-groups within the larger organization. Dense subsections of the network, like cliques or sub-groups, exert a pressure to conform to group norms upon the members. Thus, we can expect to find particular styles of verbal interactions within and between clusters.

Clusters According to Boissevain, clusters are segments or compartments of networks which have a relatively high density. The persons forming clusters are relatively speaking more closely linked to each other than they are with the rest of the network (1974: 43). " A cluster consists of a portion of a network in which the members share an identity or are linked through a common role or activity. In a factory, for example, a cluster could be those factory workers working a particular job or shift.

This interaction is characterized by the degree to which members sustain individuality or collectivity, deference or solidarity. Whether we observe systems operating between deference and solidarity, or individuals navigating between individual identity and status and group solidarity and belonging, we are observing the same phenomenon: the constant tension in human relationships of being a member of a group and simultaneously being an independent agent. 1. Face and repair Speakers use politeness in language, according to Brown and Levinson, in their attempts to repair, redress or avoid situations in which an individual's face is potentially threatened.

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