Creating Inequality: Breaking the Rules in Debates
| Autor: | Carole Edelsky, Karen L. Adams |
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| Rok vydání: | 1990 |
| Předmět: |
Linguistics and Language
Sociology and Political Science Social Psychology Inequality media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Happening 050109 social psychology Language and Linguistics Education Power (social and political) Politics Yardstick 050903 gender studies Order (exchange) Anthropology Law 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Conversation Sociology 0509 other social sciences Control (linguistics) Law and economics media_common |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Language and Social Psychology. 9:171-190 |
| ISSN: | 1552-6526 0261-927X |
| Popis: | As both unabashed contests for power and forums for political candidates who, presumably, already have relatively substantial societal power, political debates offer a site for investigating the creation of more powerful language use for some, less powerful for others. Since the canonical debate form promises an equal distribution of turns and topic control to all debators through prespecification of practically everything that might vary in conversation (Sacks, Schegloff & Jefferson, 1974), the instances within actual debate which violate rules for prespecification are prime sites for revealing gender issues. The out of order and oddly functioning talk in six televised political debates was analysed, holding the promise of fairness of canonical debates as a yardstick. Un-rule-y talk violated rules for who was to speak (uninvited and out of turn order UNs) and what was to be happening (unexpected and oddly functioning MOVEs). UNs and MOVEs were categorised, sorted, and analysed as to where they occurred, who did them, what special features they had, and what consequences they had for subsequent topics, turns, and event structuring. The analysis has implications for the study of gender and language as well as the study and conduct of political debates. |
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