The Languages of "The Office"

Venkat Rao has followed up his analysis of office dynamics as reflected in The Office, which we discussed last month, with one titled Posturetalk, Powertalk, Babytalk and Gametalk. The Office is running a little thin of meaty examples to make his points in delineating the ways of PowerTalk — the language of the Sociopaths — so Rao reaches out to Goodfellas, Wall Street, The Boiler Room, and Making Jack Falcone. The entire analysis illuminates and is illuminated by a diagram of the disparate languages that Sociopaths, the Clueless, and Losers speak to each other and among themselves.

Comments

Tell the Guild

[Philip K Dickhead]

This article is about the sociological maladjustment of screenwriters.

It has nothing to do with real dynamics, or actual language used by anybody.

Re:Let me get this straight

[Marxist Hacker 42]

Actually, the US version fits US Business even better- and if that scares you, well, it should.