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In chapters ranging from spoken word performances to ballet

On the 50th anniversary of this pivotal event

It also addresses major issues about the press and politics that continually resurface

Power Talk Sequences contradictions of a world thatThe concept of social power, who holds it and how they use it is a widely debated subject particularly in the field of discourse analysis, and the wider arena of sociolinguistics. In her new book,Joanna Thornborrow&lt challenges the received notion that power is necessarily held by some speakers and not by others. Through the detailed analysis of communication and interaction within a range of institutional settings, she examines power as an emerging,