Publications

Publication details [#44006]

Ermida, Isabel. 2006. Linguistic mechanisms of power in Nineteen Eighty-Four: Applying politeness theory to Orwell's world. Journal of Pragmatics 38 (6) : 842–862.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

conversational analysis | hierarchy | politeness | power | pragmatics

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper uses Brown and Levinson's pragmatic theory of politeness (1987) and later contributions to examine conversational exchanges in George of Orwell's classic book 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' as discourse instances of firmly interwoven power, hierarchy and politeness.