The Influence of Multidimensional Power on Turn-taking: A Sociolinguistic Analysis of Big Data of Conversations in Olive Twist

The study concentrates on the correlation of power with turn-taking, incorporating new ideas of multidimensional grid of social relationship. Big data of conversations collected from Oliver Twist were analyzed by linking social and linguistic variables quantitatively and the results were interpreted in the sociolinguistic framework. The findings of the study suggest that turn-taking control is conditioned not only by the status discrepancy between participants but also by their social distance/feeling involvement, and to a large extent determined by their relative desire for power.