Kucherenko, Svetlana. (2016). Power in communication: Revisiting power studies.

Topics in Linguistics. 17. 10.1515/topling-2016-0007. This paper revisits a range

of theories of power in communication and argues that there has been no methodology
able to grasp the multiplicity of power in communication as a concept. As a result,
the present scholarship on power in communication is characterized by a
multiplicity of approaches that a) use the concept of power as a self-explanatory
or vague concept in the analysis of several interactional phenomena; b) draw on a
particular approach to power, disregarding multiple workings of power; or c)
acknowledge the complexity of power and synthesize various approaches to power.