| A | B |
|---|
| instrumental power | officially enforced power |
| influential power | moral or social pressure |
| personal power | gained through role |
| political power | given to politicians / institutions |
| social power | wielded by power groups |
| ideology | set of beliefs |
| symmetrical address | equal status terms |
| asymmetrical address | unequal status terms |
| O'Barr and Atkins (1980) | women's lang = powerless lang |
| Desmond Morris (1993) | dominance and interruptions |
| Leet-Pellegrini (1980) | male experts dominate |
| Tannen | report/rapport |
| Zimmerman and West (1975) | men interrupt more |
| accommodation | changing lang to fit in |
| convergence | speak more like audience |
| divergence | speak less like audience |
| overt prestige | educ wealth intelligence |
| covert prestige | tough honest |
| west (1984) | interrogatives control discourse |
| face-threatening | attack (self)respect |
| positive face | need for respect |
| negative face | need for autonomy |
| modal tag | checks info |
| facilitative tag | invites listener into discourse |
| softening tag | lessens FTA |
| sociolect | class-based lang variety |
| power group | social group with more power |
| IRF sequence | adjacency pair + feedback |
| monitoring feature | checks listener 'on board' |
| fillers | noises to retain speaking turn |
| power in discourse | strategies to control conversation |
| power behind discourse | status leading to control of speech |
