Conversational Analysis of Dominance, Power, and Control of Supervisory Personnel toward Junior Staff in a Seniors’ Care Residence

As institutionalized settings can be fertile spaces for abuse of power and control, the authors apply critical discourse analysis to an impromptu communicative event initiated by a female senior carer to her female subordinates (who hold relatively low power and low status within the overall institu...

The International Journal of Aging and Society

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