Discourse analysis of decision making episodes in meetings: politeness theory and critical discourse analysis

• Main Authors: Nor Fariza Mohd. Nor,, Jamaluddin Aziz,
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Pusat Pengajian Bahasa dan Linguistik, FSSK, UKM 2010
• Online Access: http://journalarticle.ukm.my/1036/1/NorFariza.pdf; http://journalarticle.ukm.my/1036/; http://www.ukm.my/~ppbl/3L/3LHome.html

Many management activities (e.g. negiotiation, meetings, decision making, presentation and so on) depend on the chair‟s use and control of language. Therefore, the asymmetric relation between interactants in meetings needs to be considered. Participants in meetings have different positions and inter...