CMST 472 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Deborah Tannen, Eval
15 Feb 2017
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Additional rdng: the power of talk- deborah tannen. What is linguistic style: linguistic style: persons charac. spkng pattern. Use of jokes, figures of speech, stories, ?s, apologies: defn set of cult. learned signals by which we comm. what we mean/interp. oth. meaning & eval. one anoth. as ppl, elements: Turn taking: every utterance functions on 2 levels: We signal/create relative status of spkrs/their level of rapport: male vs. female. F = conversational rituals focus on rapport dimension of relationships. M = rituals that focus on status dimension. Indiv. spkrs vary in how sensitive they are to social dynamics of lang. Spkng in ways that position themselves as one up/resisting being put in one down position by oth. Spkng in ways that save face for oth. /buffering statements that could be seen as putting oth. in one down position: getting credit. Choice of pronoun can affect who gets credit (cid:862)i(cid:863) (cid:448)s. (cid:862)(cid:449)e(cid:863: confidence & boasting.
