A person's position in the power hierarchy can depend on many factors, such as experience, expertise or assignment to a role (French & Raven, 1959; Magee & Galinsky, 2008). Wherever people find themselves in a hierarchy, however, two things are true: They will depend on those above them...
The term “echo chamber” is a metaphor for an environment in which a person is exposed only to certain information again and again (Jamieson and Cappella, 2008). Such an environment is thought to lead to a reinforcement of one's attitudes when attitude-fitting information (e.g. news, opin...
Fundamentally speaking, the substantial progress in China's poverty reduction was largely achieved after the reform and opening-up, which was closely related to the rapid economic growth thereafter. People often describe China's process of reform and opening-up as being like a person crossing a ...
My own intentions and languaging strategies thus depend on the context of communication. I may decide to use a certain word in a certain language for the particular social meaning(s) it carries, as inla fronterain Spanish. When used in an English-speaking context, for instance, the two meani...