Title Power through discourse / edited by Leah Kedar

Published Norwood, N.J. : Ablex Pub. Corp., 1987

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Description viii, 176 pages ; 24 cm Contents Remarks on discourse and power / Deborah Tannen --Language in political anthropology / Jack McIver Weatherford -- The powers of language / S. Jack Odell -- Conversational power in FBI covert tape recordings /Roger W. Shuy -- Linguistic manipulation, power, and the legal setting / Anne Graffam Walker -- The social organization of questions and answers in courtroom discourse / Susan Urmston Philips -- Political talk /Michael H. Agar -- Analytic ambiguities in the communication of familial power / Hervé Varenne -- On the necessity of collusion in conversation / R.P. McDermott and Henry Tylbor Notes "Papers ... with the exception of one subsequently invited philosophical piece, were presented in the Symposium on Language and Power at the American Anthropological Association meetings of 1982"--Introd Bibliography Includes bibliographies and indexes Subject Language and languages -- Political aspects -- Congresses. Power (Social sciences) -- Congresses. Sociolinguistics -- Congresses. Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings. Author Kedar, Leah. American Anthropological Association. Meeting (81st : 1982 : Washington, D.C.) Symposium on Language and Power (1982 : Washington, D.C.) LC no. 86032029 ISBN 0893913286

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