And, for the tenor, it includes the head chef Gordon Ramsay and a team of contestants, and their uneven power distribution can be signaled by, for example, address forms.
This paper aims to focus on how power relation, considering the hierarchical roles the speakers play, is realized through the linguistic choices of interlocutors in the conversation. Based on the analysis of vocatives usage, mood structure, the context of situation would be brought to light.
The data is selected for investigation as it is a transcription of some demonstrates how participants unconsciously reflect the context of situation, where a clearly hierarchical structure exists .
Address Terms.
An address terms, or vocatives, refers to the names that people use to address a particular person. It is believed that the available vocatives chosen by an individual reveals how an individual position himself or herself in the hierarchy relationships among all interlocutors. (Martin 2010)).
The non-reciprocal use of first name between the chef and the contestants, a rather prominent feature, indicates the unequal power distribution, with the chef clearly dominating the others. As shown by many examples in the transcription, the chef address the contestants by calling their first name, "you" or without speaking of their names; on the contrary, whenever the contestants speak to the chef, either initiating conversations or giving response (even within one exchange), they must repeatedly address him as "chef", rather than "Gordon". Thus, .
In order to analyze the vocative selections in another dimension, the two extracted examples below, which shows how one of contestants respond respectively to the chef with higher status and a contestant with same status, are compared,.
Example 1 is a typical exchange between the chef Gordon and any contestants – whatever and whenever the chef speak to Emily, she gives a feedback tokens ended in "chef" to show respect.
