Language and Interaction in Institutional Discourse
by
Joanna Thornborrow
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
The concept of social power, who holds it and how they use it is a widely debated subject particularly in the field of discourse analysis, and the wider arena of sociolinguistics.
In her new book,Joanna Thornborrow challenges the received notion that power is necessarily held by some speakers...