The Exercise of Power in Communication: Devices, Reception and Reaction

This book explores the various choices speakers or communicators make when expressing power relations in modern societies. The volume brings together several disciplines, such as linguistics, sociology, communication studies and social psychology, to give insight into how interactants co-construct different aspects of power in their everyday life.

Kevin Blankenship, Iowa State University, USA Traci Y. Craig, University of Idaho, USA Naomi Ellemers, University of Leiden, the Netherlands Mark Hamilton, University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA PJ Henry, New York University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates Lawrence Hosman, University of Southern Mississippi, USA Anders Hougaard, University of Southern Denmark E. Dimitris Kitis, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa Eliza Kitis, Independent Scholar Ann M. Lewis, Iowa State University, USA Claude Miller, University of Oklahoma, USA Hanna Pishwa, Technical University of Berlin, USA Kai Sassenberg, University of Tübingen, Germany Daan Scheepers, University of Leiden, the Netherlands Annika Scholl, Knowledge Media Research Center, Tübingen, Germany Rainer Schulze, Leibniz University of Hanover, Germany Monika Schwarz-Friese, Technical University of Berlin, Germany Alexandra Suppes, Columbia University, USA