Language and Power Texts

Language and Power Text 1 - Political Speech
Speech from Terence McKenna
"We have to create culture, don't watch TV, don't read magazines, don't even listen to NPR. Create your own roadshow. The nexus of space and time where you are now is the most immediate sector of your universe, and if you're worrying about Michael Jackson or Bill Clinton or somebody else, then you are disempowered, you're giving it all away to icons, icons which are maintained by an electronic media so that you want to dress like X or have lips like Y. This is shit-brained, this kind of thinking. That is all cultural diversion, and what is real is you and your friends and your associations, your highs, your orgasms, your hopes, your plans, your fears. And we are told 'no', we're unimportant, we're peripheral. 'Get a degree, get a job, get a this, get a that.' And then you're a player, you don't want to even play in that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that's being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world.” 
― Terence McKenna
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eu9GfHCpVo

Language and Power Text 2 - Education Extract
Educating Essex clips
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKa4g3YkQmU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eu2MCbeKHG0

Language and Power Text 3 - Interview
Jonathan Ross Show- Interview with Russell Brand 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxjcSzjw8kE

Language and Power Text 4 - Parent/ Child Conversation
Outnumbered clip
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcpohUL5k4w

Language and Power Text 5 - Article about a specific topic where experts are used
The Guardian article about Language and Power
http://www.theguardian.com/women-in-leadership/2013/jun/03/speech-language-determine-success-workplace