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(2016): Chairing Meetings. Turn and Topic Control in Development Communication in Rural Zanzibar. In: Discourse & Society 9 (1), S. 33-56. DOI: 10.1177/0957926598009001002
Abstract: This paper presents a linguistic analysis of the roles and verbal contributions of chairwomen in two agricultural co-operatives in rural Zanzibar. Discourse analysis with a focus on realizations of politeness and powerless speech style is used to study two communicative events. In the first co-operative, the chairwoman controls the meeting through the allocation of turns and topics. as well as the use of her position and its privileges to persuade others of her opinion. In this context, the use of passive voice, subjunctive forms, hedges, the choice of pronouns and address forms is of specific interest to us. In the second co-operative, an Agricultural Extension Officer present in the meeting interferes. practically taking over the task of chairing the meeting. While the chairwoman is forced to defend her position, her irritation and uncertainty are ex pressed in contributions that contain several characteristics of a powerless speech style. At the same time, the chairwoman's reply to the intrusion shows commitment and emphasis on a point that is crucial to her. In Meeting Two presequences, false starts, changes in the word order, hedges. direct speech. choice of tense and address forms are particularly relevant.
Keywords: Anrede, Dialog/Konversation/Rede, Direktheit/direkte Rede, Fehlstarts/false starts, Heckenausdrücke/Hedges, Intervention/Unterbrechung etc., Konjunktiv/Subjunktiv, Macht, Passive Stimme, Powerless speech style, Presequences, Pronomen, Reihenfolge von Wörtern im Satz, Tempus/Zeitform/tense, time 2011
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(2011) : Etiquette Considerations For Adaptive Systems That Interrupt: Cost And Benefits In: Hayes, Caroline C.; Miller, Christopher Allan (Hg.): Human-computer etiquette: Cultural expectations and the design implications they place on computers and technology: Boca Raton, Fla.: CRC Press, S. 289-322
Abstract: It is not generally considered impolite to interrupt. However, etiquette is not simply about politeness but also appropriateness. Thus, while etiquette dictates that it is inappropriate, counterproductive, or even dangerous to interrupt someone with irrelevant information in the middle of a critical task requiring great concentration, it also allows that it is appropriate and necessary to interrupt with crucial information. For example, it is inappropriate to interrupt an airline pilot during landing with the baseball score, but entirely appropriate to interrupt with the information that the landing gear has malfunctioned.
Keywords: Adaptive Systeme, Dialog/Konversation/Rede, doppelter Treffer, Etikette, Favoriten, Human-Computer Etiquette, Interuption, Intervention/Unterbrechung etc., Mensch-Technik-Relationen (MTR), Mensch-Technische Systeme, Realtechnik, Relevanz des Grundes für eine Unterbrechung, Sozial Intelligente Agenten, Soziale Angemessenheit, Soziale Robotik, Soziosensitive Systeme, Technik, Volltreffer 2003
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(2003): Gender and politeness. 1. publ. Cambridge u.a.: Cambridge University Press
Abstract: Gender and Politeness challenges the notion that women are necessarily always more polite than men as much of the language and gender literature claims. Sara Mills discusses the complex relations between gender and politeness and argues that although there are circumstances when women speakers, drawing on stereotypes of femininity to guide their behaviour, will appear to be acting in a more polite way than men, there are many circumstances where women will act just as impolitely as men. The book aims to show that politeness and impoliteness are in essence judgements about another's interventions in an interaction and about that person as whole, and are not simple classifications of particular types of speech. Drawing on the notion of community of practice Mills examines the way that speakers negotiate with what they perceive to be gendered stereotypes circulating within their particular group.
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