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Occupation - Coggle Diagram
Occupation
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● Overt praise and politeness strategies to ‘reward’ children’s contributions and behaviour - positive face
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● Teachers’ unconscious hedges, discourse markers and verbal fillers eg. ‘Okay’
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● Teacher able to decide whether to address whole-class, groups or individuals, varying speech depending on context
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Power
- sets clear expectation that people will follow the instructions and there will be penalties if they don’t
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- explicit and imposed by a higher authority
- may be imposed by the government, legal system, places of work, management etc.
- little attempt to converge with the receiver
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- tries to make people behave in a certain way, do something in particular or change opinions and attitudes
- no ‘force’ is being applied and there is no penalty for not following the guidance
- often found in advertising
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‘A specialised jargon serves not just to label of new and needed concepts, but to establish
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If you cannot understand my jargon, you don’t belong to my group.’
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Enables fellow professionals with shared schematic knowledge to communicate information precisely and efficiently. Highly technical language prevents misunderstanding arising from ambiguity.
But... jargon can be confusing to non-specialists. Jargon can sometimes be used to deliberately exclude the public and may be exploited to give the false impression of high authority.
Drew and Heritage (1992) identified some key differences between everyday conversation and talk at work. These were summarised by Koester (2004) ‘The Language of Work’
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Jargon
specialist words or expressions used by a profession or group that are difficult for others to understand.