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This paper revisits a range of theories of power in communication and argues that there has been no methodology able to grasp the multiplicity of power in communication as a concept. As a result, the present scholarship on power in communication is characterized by a multiplicity of approaches that a) use the concept of power as a self-explanatory or vague concept in the analysis of several interactional phenomena; b) draw on a particular approach to power, disregarding multiple workings of power; or c) acknowledge the complexity of power and synthesize various approaches to power.

Power in communication: revisiting power studies

MA Department of Foreign Languages National Research University - Higher School of Economics, Kantemirovskay Str., 3 Saint-Petersburg Russian Federation

Topics in Linguistics

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This paper revisits a range of theories of power in communication and argues that there has been no methodology able to grasp the multiplicity of power in...

Power in communication: revisiting power studies

Published Online: Jun 15, 2016

Page range: 92 - 110

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/topling-2016-0007

Keywords
power in communication, theories of power, multiplicity of approaches, discourse, power terms

© 2016

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Power in communication: revisiting power studies

Published Online: Jun 15, 2016

Page range: 92 - 110

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/topling-2016-0007

Keywordspower in communication, theories of power, multiplicity of approaches, discourse, power terms

© 2016

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
power in communication, theories of power, multiplicity of approaches, discourse, power terms