Dominance-Seeking Language Strategies: Please Eat the Floor, Dogbreath, or I’ll Rip Your Lungs Out, Okay?

Liska, Jo

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“…Like explicitness, dominance may be expressed by linguistic choice. However, dominance may also be communicated by message content, such as when a threat is made, or nonverbally, such as when a message is delivered in a hostile tone of voice (Liska, 1992).…”

Section: Characterizing Influence Messagesmentioning

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Relational Judgments in an Influence Context

Dillard

Palmer²,

Kinney³

1995

Human Comm Res

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We contend that communication episodes tend to focus interactants'attention on one or the other of two relational judgments: dominance or affiliation. Further, when one judgment is relatively more salient, individuals will use the salient judgment as the basisfor infm'ng other aspects of the relationship. To test that notion, a judgment study was conducted in which participants viewed a set of influence messages that varied in degree of dominance and explicitness. The influence context was chosen because it naturally highlighted dominance. After viewing the messages, participants provided ratings ofdominance, explicitness, and two aspects of affiliation: liking and involvement. When the resulting data were submitted to a structural equation analysis, it wasfound that judgments of liking depended on judgments of explicitness and dominance. Judgments of involvement depended on judgments of liking and dominance. Bothfindings support the claim that one relational judgment may provide the basis for another.henever two persons interact with one another they make judgments about the nature of their relationship on the basis of the W messages that they exchange. In large measure, those judgments are estimates of the relative dominance and affiliation of the two individuals. Attention to the content of those judgments reveals the impetus for a relational inference process; individuals are motivated to predict and understand the behavior of others because they are dependent upon them for the rewards that social actors desire.Illumination of the process by which those judgments occur has been, and will continue to be, a fundamental challenge for communication James Price Dillard is a professor of communication arts at the University of WisconsinMadison. Mark T. Palmer is an assistant professor of communication arts at Northwestern University. Terry A. Kinney is a doctoral candidate in communication arts at the University of Winsconsin-Madison,We are grateful to Kyle Tusing for his assistance with stimulus development and data collection and to Mike Cruz for his comments on an earlier version of this manuscript.

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Relational Judgments in an Influence Context

Dillard

Palmer²,

Kinney³

1995

Human Comm Res

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“…Not only do they reflect an individual's need for self–other comparisons and desire to excel in relation to others, but they also demonstrate that an individual's superior or dominant status only exists insofar as it is recognized and authorized by others in linguistic utterances (Bourdieu 1977; Gal 1991). With dominance seen as a universal principle of human social organization (Liska 1992), it should come as no surprise that the drive for positive distinction is already a prominent emotion in childhood and that tacit social knowledge of the workings of power is manifested in young children's everyday interactions (Goodwin 1990, 1999; Maynard 1985). Despite recent challenges to earlier studies (Gilligan 1982; Maltz and Borker 1982) that characterized children's management of power relations as sharply gender‐polarized (e.g.…”

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‘Who was the best?’: Power, knowledge and rationality in bilingual girls’ code choices¹

Bolonyai

2005

Journal of Sociolinguistics

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This paper examines how pre‐adolescent bilingual girls employ linguistic choices to construct relations of dominance and subordination in a competitive exchange of knowledge and expertise in a pretend‐school activity. Quantitative and qualitative analyses demonstrate that code choices used by the girls to constitute and exploit different sources of power are systematically related to the construction of currently salient identities, prevailing structural constraints, and individual goals and desires. It is argued that even young children act as rational, social actors who actively make strategic and meaningful linguistic choices with the overall aim to achieve optimal outcomes in a given interaction.

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“…This pattern is accentuated when the tutee is a NNS (Thonus, 2003;Williams, 2004). This has the obvious consequence of decreasing the amount of time during which the tutee holds the floor, where floor is defined in individual terms as one person at a time (Edelsky, 1981;Liska, 1992).…”

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What are the differences?Tutor interactions with first- and second-language writers

THONUS¹

2004

Journal of Second Language Writing

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This paper reports on a decade of research into the nature of interactions between writing center tutors and native speaker (NS) and non-native speaker (NNS) tutees. It explores and describes the structure of this interaction and the behaviors of NNS tutees, and of tutors when interacting with both NS and NNS tutees. It characterizes writing center tutorials with NNSs as a balancing act among potentially conflicting forces. Finally, it suggests applications of these insights to tutor preparation and practice. #

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Dominance-Seeking Language Strategies: Please Eat the Floor, Dogbreath, or I’ll Rip Your Lungs Out, Okay?

Cited by 7 publications

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Relational Judgments in an Influence Context

Relational Judgments in an Influence Context

‘Who was the best?’: Power, knowledge and rationality in bilingual girls’ code choices¹

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Dominance-Seeking Language Strategies: Please Eat the Floor, Dogbreath, or I’ll Rip Your Lungs Out, Okay?

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‘Who was the best?’: Power, knowledge and rationality in bilingual girls’ code choices1

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