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2. When interruptions in a mixed-sex conversation happen, the pause afterwards is longer than a pause in a single-sex conversation. Who said this?

  • Brown and Levinson
  • Zimmerman and West
  • Jespersen
  • East

3. Which theorist suggested the idea of synthetic personalisation?

  • Labov
  • Fishman
  • Fairclough
  • Lakoff

4. Who studied about how a person saves face or threatens someone else's face?

  • Holmes
  • Tannen
  • Goffman
  • Komarovsky

5. Labov studied how social class affected language.

  • False - it was actually Trudgill
  • True
  • False
  • False - it was actually Lakoff
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