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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