The Expression of Inequality in Interaction -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- The expression of inequality in interaction. Power, dominance, and status: An introduction -- The chapters -- Part I: Focus on third persons -- Part II: Focus on speaker/author -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Part I. Focus on third persons -- Representing inequality in language: Words as social categorizers of experience -- 1. Introduction: Aim of the inquiry and key research questions -- 2. Language and "dominance", "inequality", "power" and "status" -- 3. Corpus and method: Combining quantitative and qualitative approaches -- 4. Findings: Quantitative and qualitative evidence -- 5. Findings: Refining the collocational profile -- 6. On the interaction of words, context and patterns or constructions -- 7. Conclusion -- References -- Sexual network partners in Tanzania: Labels, power, and the systemic muting of women's health and id -- 1. Background -- 2. Method -- 3. Results -- 4. Discussion -- 5. Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- A "rape victim" by any other name: The effects of labels on individuals' rape-related perceptions -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Synthesis of theories on social power and language -- 3. Past research on the denotations, connotations, and self-conceptualizations as "rape victims" ver -- 4. New research on perceptions of "rape victims" versus "rape survivors" -- 5. Discussion -- 6. Moving beyond the "victim" and "survivor" labels -- 7. Conclusion -- References -- Unveiling the phantom of the "Islamic takeover": A critical, cognitive-linguistic analysis of the di -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Manipulating consent and the perpetuation of hegemonic ideologies -- 3. Manipulating consent through metaphorical ICMs -- 4. Lifting the veil - Analysis/discussion of the findings.

5. Assimilating the world to the model: Constructing the desired facts -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Power eliciting elements at the semantic-pragmatic interface: Data from cyberbullying and virtual ch -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Power in the context of CB and VCA -- 3. Convergence processes between real and virtual reality in an uncontrollable communication sphere -- 4. Semantic aspects of power -- 5. Discourse level: Context as a power-eliciting item -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Part II. Focus on speaker/author -- Powerless language: Hedges as cues for interpersonal functions -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Power -- 3. Power/-lessness and language -- 4. Linguistic cues for powerlessness -- 5. Influence of powerless style -- 6. Discussion -- 7. Conclusions -- References -- A true authoritarian type: How fonts can facilitate positive opinions for powerful groups -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Psychological concepts -- 3. Study 1 -- 4. Study 2 -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- We and I, and you and them: People, power and solidarity -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Political discourse in context -- 3. Pronouns in context -- 4. Doing dominance in political discourse -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Language, normativity and power: The discursive construction of objectophilia -- 1. Introduction: Sexual normativity, discourse and power -- 2. Objectophilia -- 3. Data and method -- 4. Sexual desire, identity and normativity in conversations on objectophilia -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Appendix -- Subject index.