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Owusu-Ansah, L. K. – Edinburgh Working Papers in Linguistics, 1992
This paper considers the language patterning in two situations, the student-staff meeting and student resolutions, with special reference to how the use of modal items in directives can serve as a guide to the balance of power in student-staff interactions. (Contains 10 references.) (Author)
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Interaction