For our first piece of work on Language and Power, we were asked to evaluate a video, we chose Lisa Kudrow's scene from the TV series, Scandal.
With the ambition of becoming President, Lisa Kudrow's character is interviewed about the situation. However, she soon believes that the presenter is promoting female stereotypes and starts to lash out against him.
We explored how power is expressed through language, for example, we looked into turn taking. Despite the presenter usually having the most turns and asks the most questions in an interview setting, she ends up speaking much more than him and overpowers his authority. They each perfume face threatening acts and we took politeness into consideration, as well as Grice's Maxims.
Please view the PowerPoint to see more of our evaluation.
Language & Power presentation
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