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6. Instrumental power is...
- where the audience actually has power due to their position
- where the writer/speaker must try and persuade the audience
- where the writer/speaker actually has power due to their position
- where the audience must try and persuade the speaker
7. Who said "language can be 'face saving' or 'face threatening'"
- Goffman
- Brown and Levison
- Fairclough
- Wareing
8. Labov's research highlighted the issue of convergence- what is this?
- Changing your dialect to make people think you are more educated
- Forming a group based on similar speech styles
- Changing our speech style to fit in with a certain group
- Being friends with people of a similar dialect to you