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Coulthard and Sinclair

Initiation- Response- Feedback

Trudgill

5 social classes:


Middle middle


Lower middle


Upper working


Middle working


Lower working

Wareing

Types of Power:


Political, personal, social


Influential and instrumental

Goffman

Face Threatening Acts

Fairclough

Power Assymetry

Brown and Levinson

Politeness Strategies

Labov

Language and Social class


• 9 classes


• New York Study

Cheshire

Covert (men) and Overt (women) prestige