Relationship Types

SHARING, RANKING, TRADING :THOUGHTS ABOUT RELATIONSHIPS
Introduction
Communal Sharing
Authority Ranking
Equality Matching
Implicature
Table of Contents
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Language and Mind
We pay for expedited service and tip all kinds of personnel, such as cab drivers, for better service.

HOWEVER, what makes it scary about bribing a maitre d’

→ It seems unethical, feeling that maitre d’ claims a different relationship with us.
Introduction
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Language and Mind
Introduction

Pinker insists that there are three relationship types rooted in our evolutionary history and each applies instinctively to certain kinds of human dyads

Using implicature and indirect speech we can force the mindset of a given relationship type to move from one to another.
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Language and Mind

Brown Levinson’s Politeness Theory
1. Communal Sharing (Solidarity)
2. Authority Ranking (Power)

Fiske
3. Equality Matching (Social Exchange)
Major Kinds of Relationships
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Language and Mind
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