The Exercise of Power in Communication

Devices, Reception and Reaction

  • Rainer Schulze
  • Hanna Pishwa
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Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction
      Hanna Pishwa, Rainer Schulze
      Pages 1-13

  3. Social Aspects of the Exercise of Power in Linguistics

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 15-15
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    2. The Significance of ‘the Social’ in Contemporary Linguistics
      Rainer Schulze
      Pages 17-42
    3. Meaning Ruptures and Meaningful Eruptions in the Service of Rhetoric: Populist Flare-Up Hits the Greek Political Pitch
      Eliza Kitis, E. Dimitris Kitis
      Pages 43-84

  4. Linguistic Cues for the Exercise of Power and Persuasion

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 85-85
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    2. Power under the Veil of Democracy
      Anders Hougaard
      Pages 87-129
    3. Information Source as Persuasive Power in Political Interviews: the Case of Obama
      Hanna Pishwa
      Pages 130-160
    4. Using Language as a Weapon: Verbal Manifestations of Contemporary Anti-Semitism
      Monika Schwarz-Friesel
      Pages 161-183

  5. Linguistic Elements and Their Influence on the Recipient

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 185-185
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    2. Gender, Power and the Human Voice
      Alexandra Suppes
      Pages 187-198
    3. Leveraging Processing to Understand Linguistic Cues, Power and Persuasion
      Traci Craig, Kevin L. Blankenship, Annie Lewis
      Pages 199-220
    4. Powerful and Powerless Speech Styles and Their Relationship to Perceived Dominance and Control
      Lawrence Hosman
      Pages 221-232
    5. Language Intensity as an Expression of Power in Political Messages
      Mark A. Hamilton
      Pages 233-265

  6. Focus on the Influence of Powerful Messages and Reactions

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 267-267
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    2. Persuasion and Psychological Reactance: the Effects of Explicit, High-Controlling Language
      Claude H. Miller
      Pages 269-286
    3. Antidominance as a Motive of Low-Power Groups in Conflict
      P. J. Henry
      Pages 287-311
    4. Understanding Power in Social Context: How Power Relates to Language and Communication in Line with Responsibilities or Opportunities
      Annika Scholl, Naomi Ellemers, Kai Sassenberg, Daan Scheepers
      Pages 312-334
  7. Back Matter
    Pages 335-337
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About this book

Introduction

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 linguistics, sociology, communication studies and social psychology, to give insight into how interactants co-construct different aspects of power in their everyday life.

Keywords

Multidisciplinary linguistics social psychology communication studies power powerlessness persuasion dominance control political discourse populism democracy intersubjectivity speech acts rhetoric information source traces anti-Semitism metaphor voice communication

Editors and affiliations

  • Rainer Schulze
    • 1
  • Hanna Pishwa
    • 2
  1. 1.Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University of HanoverGermany
  2. 2.Technische UniversitätGermany

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