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6. Goffman proposed what....?

  • Equal face: desire to remain equal in conversations
  • Positive face: desire to seem worthy, negative face: desire to be autonomous
  • Negative face: desire to seem worthy, positive face: desire to be autonomous

7. Goffman said that to maintain face during a conversation you need to....?

  • Be silent, never ask questions
  • Respect, listen, not invade
  • Overlap, ignore, shout

8. What are inferences?

  • Psychological, biological, chemically
  • Linguistic, cognitive, deiectic, pragmatic
  • Grammatically, semantically, graphology

9. To threaten someone's negative face.....

  • Order, requests, advice
  • Ask, thank, wait
  • Listen, turn take, agree

10. Interpolation means?

  • To take control of a conversation and become the most powerful
  • Least powerful pressured to accept the 'world view' of the most powerful
  • Most powerful pressured to accept the 'world view' of the least powerful

11. To threaten someone's positive face....

  • Argue, report, disrespect, copy
  • Disapprove, disagree, accuse, interrupt
  • Shout, get in there face, ignore

12. Who said it was human nature to make inferences?

  • Atkinson
  • Chernov&Fairclough
  • Fairclough

13. What are the most effective clap traps?

  • Tripartite sequence, atethesis, positive evaluation of us, negative evaluation of them
  • Rhetorical questions, tag questions, lists
  • Direct address, positive reinforcement, mitigation

14. Labrov said what?

  • Converge/diverge speech depending on the status of who we talk to
  • Change how we speak depending on who we are speaking to
  • Change who speak to when we talk about different things

15. "Unequal encounters are caused by a conversational power struggle"

  • Fairclough
  • Goodman
  • Labrov

16. Who proposed that innocent seeming texts work to position the audience?

  • Althusser
  • Lackoff
  • Goffman

17. Increased informality in modern societies...

  • Goodman
  • Fairclough
  • Bodine