Lang and Occupation

Question 1

What is Hornyaks theory?

Answer 1

Highest rank in the room initiates switch from work talk to personal talk.

Question 2

What is Herbert and Straight theory?

Answer 2

Compliments go down the hierarchy.

Question 3

Drew and Heritage?

Answer 3

Discourse community creates inferential frameworks where knowledge is built up over time and becomes more efficient. + Difference in work and normal talk: goal orientation, turn taking, structure, allowable contributions and lexis.

Question 4

Norman Fairclough?

Answer 4

Conversationalisation, increased informality in the workplace. Links to Sharon Goodman informalisation.

Question 5

Spolsky?

Answer 5

Jargon creates bonds between workers and enforces boundaries. Knowing it enables belonging to discourse community, not knowing enforces the lack of sense of belonging.

Question 6

Janet Holmes?

Answer 6

Female managers more likely to negotiate consensus than male managers and take to time ensure everyone agrees.

Question 7

Nelson And Wilson

Answer 7

Explored business lexis by comparing corpus of business language to British National Corpus and found that didn’t feature personal issues, society, family house and home and personal activities.

Question 8

Koester?

Answer 8

Stressed importance of phatic communication in ensuring workplace relations, and solidarity and that conversations can either be interactional or transactional.

Question 9

Janet Holmes?

Answer 9

Woman use just as much humour as men despite stereotypes. But they are more likely to encourage support and collaborative humour,

Question 10

John Swales

Answer 10

Defined a discourse community as a group of people that aim to achieve a specific and shared goal.