Relationship Types

_SLIDE_1_ SHARING, RANKING, TRADING :THOUGHTS ABOUT RELATIONSHIPS _SLIDE_2_ Introduction Communal Sharing Authority Ranking Equality Matching Implicature Table of Contents 2012-03-19 2 Language and Mind _SLIDE_3_ We pay for expedited service and tip all kinds of personnel, such as cab drivers, for better service. HOWEVER, what makes it scary about bribing a maitre d’? → It seems unethical, feeling that maitre d’ claims a different relationship with us. Introduction 2012-03-19 3 Language and Mind _SLIDE_4_ Introduction Pinker insists that there are three relationship types rooted in our evolutionary history and each applies instinctively to certain kinds of human dyads Using implicature and indirect speech we can force the mindset of a given relationship type to move from one to another. 2012-03-19 4 Language and Mind _SLIDE_5_ Brown & Levinson’s Politeness Theory 1. Communal Sharing (Solidarity) 2. Authority Ranking (Power) Fiske 3. Equality Matching (So…
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