Publications

Publication details [#38992]

Thomas, Jenny A. 1985. The language of power : Towards a dynamic pragmatics. Journal of Pragmatics 9 (6) : 765–783.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

conversational analysis | discourse organization | power | pragmatics

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

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Annotation

This paper argues that the combination of insights from conversational analysis and recent work in interpersonal pragmatics enables a better prediction and explanation of discourse-organisation.