Language and Power and Occupation A Level Unit

A 10 lesson unit comprising a 69 slide PowerPoint, 9 different worksheets (including a range of transcripts) exploring the topic of Language and Power and Occupation and a summary terminology and theory sheet.

Each lesson includes a starting discussion prompt which acts as a learning objective, detailed notes on the theories and concepts listed below, a worksheet (with the exception of lesson nine) and activities, and a homework task. The following theories and concepts are covered:

• Shân Wareing – Types of Power, 1999
• Pierre Bourdieu – Language and Symbolic Power, 1993
• Norman Fairclough – Types of power, 1984
• Erving Goffman – Face-work, 1967
• Brown and Levinson – Politeness Theory, 1987
• Howard Giles – Communication Accommodation Theory, 1973
• Drew and Heritage - Institutional Talk and Inferential Frameworks, 1992
• John Swales – Discourse Community, 1990
• Sinclair and Coulthard – IRF Model and Teacher Talk, 1975 and 1992
• Paul Grice – Cooperative Principle and Gricean Maxims, 1975
• Almut Koester – Phatic Talk in the Workplace, 2004
• Judith Baxter – Double-voiced discourse, 2014
• Janet Holmes and Maria Stubbe - Power and Politeness in the Workplace, 2003 & 2015

There are some references to AQA-style A Level specification questions, but you can adapt these if needs be. These can be found on slides 58-66. Lesson 9 is based on an AQA A Level question.

The final lesson is a consolidation activity complete with guided revision cards. Alternatively, you could use an app such as Quizlet so that the students could produce digital revision resources.

Check out my other English Language A Level resources!

Language and Gender
Language and Region
Language and Global and World Englishes
Language Change
Language and Technology
Language and Ethnicity
Language and Social Groups
Language Discourses
Analysing Spoken Language
Child Language Acquisition - Speech
Child Language Acquisition - Reading and Writing
Language Discourses Opinion Writing