The Power of Words

What interests me most is the beginning of Part II when Bourdieu starts talking about the meaning of words and the uses of language in society. I always thought writing is a powerful form of expression, something that people will read and understand the context and emotion the author was trying to have understood. But Bourdieu states that is not always the case. He says, "The power of words is nothing other than the delegated power of the spokesperson, and his speech - that is, the substance of his discourse and, inseparably, his way of speaking- is no more than a testimony, and one among other, of the guarantee of delegation which is vested in him" (107). I think I have an example of what he is talking about.
An author could be passionately writing her views on a topic (this situation could in fact be happening to me right now), in her mind she knows exactly the tone and emotions she wishes to convey in her writing. Then, when she presents it to someone else who reads her work in a dry monotone voice, missing her sarcasm, humor, and whatever else she wanted expressed, the message losses its power and therefore its meaning on the listeners. If she herself had read the speech the way it is suppose to be read the writing would have had more power and effect on the listener, and made all the difference in the world.
What he is saying is the words by themselves mean nothing, but it is the combined forces of words plus the authorized speaker, "because his speech concentrates within it the accumulated symbolic capital of the group which has delegated him and of which he is the authorized representative" (111).