STATUS AND POWER IN VERBAL INTERACTION -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter One: Introduction -- 1. Goals and overview -- 1.1. The analysis and interpretation of culture -- 1.2. Discourse structure and strategies -- 1.3. Power and status -- 1.3.1. Status and Rank -- 1.3.2. Power and Rank -- 1.4. Conversation and interpersonal meaning -- 2. The dynamics of social activity -- 2.1. Politeness and social relationships -- 3. Data collection and methodology -- 3.1.The community under observation -- 3.2. Suitability for the study -- 3.3. The recordings of the speech situations -- 4. Conclusion -- Chapter Two: Language in a Social Context -- 1. Language in use -- 1.1. Sociolinguistics: from field linguistics to social class -- 1.2. The ethnography of speaking -- 2. Social networks -- 2.1. Network density -- 2.2. Network multiplexity -- 2.3. Clusters -- 2.4. Network features and linguistic analysis -- 2.5. Networks and codes -- 2.6. Networks and social variables -- 2.7. Networks and methodology -- 3. Network structure of the community -- 3.1. Overview of the community network -- 3.2. Network density and multiplexity -- 3.3. Ranking and status of members -- 3.4. Social variables -- Chapter Three: Verbal Interaction: Balancing Individual and Group Wants -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Self presentation and group preservation -- 2.1. Face and repair -- 2.2. Lexical and syntactic choices -- 2.3. Pauses and self correction -- 2.4. Defending one's topic -- 3. Politic verbal behavior -- 3.1. Going off-record -- 4. Speech situations and severity of FTAs -- 4.1. Network variables and interaction -- 4.2. Inter cluster interaction -- 4.3. Intracluster interaction -- 4.4. Interaction in formal settings -- 5. Manipulating deference and solidarity strategies -- 5.1. Rhetorical strategies.

5.2. Solidarity and deference strategies -- 6. Conclusion -- Chapter Four: The Consensual View of Power inDiscourse -- 1. Turn-taking -- 1.1. Overlapping speech -- 2. Topics -- 3. Topic ratification and refusal -- 3.1. Raising a new topic as an FTA -- 3.2. Bidding for power and speaker insecurity -- 3.3. Rejecting a discourse topic -- 3.4. Withdrawing a discourse topic -- 4. Conclusion -- 4.1. Topic analysis and power -- 4.2. Power as consensual -- Chapter Five: Conflict and Competition in Discourse -- 1. The nature of conflict -- 1.1. Constraints against conflict -- 1.2. Forms of conflict -- 2. Conflict of relationship roles -- 2.1. Social identities and social organization -- 2.2. Vying for rank and leadership -- 2.3. Metaphorical switching -- 3. Overt conflict -- 3.1. Managing face threats -- 3.2. Speech act as face threat -- 4. Rivalry -- 4.1. Rivalry versus conflict -- 4.2. Rivalry and performance -- 4.3. Competition and cooperation -- 5. Summary -- Chapter Six: Power and Status in the Community -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Interaction and social identity -- 2.1. Politic behavior -- 2.2. Rhetorical strategies -- 2.3. Topic analysis and power -- 2.4. Conflict and competition -- 3. Implications for power -- 3.1. Power as consensual -- 4. Methodological considerations -- 4.1. Implications for further study -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Subject Index -- Author Index.