exploding the myth of hierarchy of power among social actors in business letters: a two-way mediated communicative genre

The present study seeks to address power relations in business letters for all. as a means to exercise power among agents within different circumstances, political discourse analysis by fairclough and fairclough (2012) will be employed. in addition, this study proposes the possibility by which the individuals’ values may become naturalized instruments to exercise power. hierarchy of power is investigated in different kinds of arguments, reasonings and interactions in these letters. what has already been legitimized and naturalized in the interaction between the relational opposites is called into question. thus, letter writing as a social practice becomes the mediating instrument between individuals which propel the conduction of events or actions on one hand and the organizations as structures on the other hand. that is, in a capitalist society, the owners and those in higher levels of social structure need to meet the individuals’ needs to proceed and achieve the promotion required for their survival.

exploding the myth of hierarchy of power among social actors in business letters: a two-way mediated communicative genre

the present study seeks to address power relations in business letters for all. as a means to exercise power among agents within different circumstances, political discourse analysis by fairclough and fairclough (2012) will be employed. in addition, this study proposes the possibility by which the individuals’ values may become naturalized instruments to exercise power. hierarchy of power is investigated in different kinds of arguments, reasonings and interactions in these letters. what has already been legitimized and naturalized in the interaction between the relational opposites is called into question. thus, letter writing as a social practice becomes the mediating instrument between individuals which propel the conduction of events or actions on one hand and the organizations as structures on the other hand. that is, in a capitalist society, the owners and those in higher levels of social structure need to meet the individuals’ needs to proceed and achieve the promotion required for their survival.