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Publication details [#27752]

Jones, Elizabeth S., Cynthia Gallois, Victor J. Callan and Michelle Barker. 1995. Language and power in an academic context: The effect of status, ethnicity, and sex. Journal of Language and Social Psychology 14 (4) : 434–461.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

academic world | language | power | sex | social status

Place, Publisher

Sage Periodical Press

ISBN

0261-927X

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This paper examines language strategies used to express power in Chinese/Australian student-academic staff interaction, and their relationship to sex, status and ethnicity of the interactants.