Robin Lakoff
Deficit Theory
Deborah Tannen
Rapport/Report Talk
O’Bar & Atkins
Low authority speakers & powerless language
Fishman
Interruptions & overlaps
Women questioning in a conversation is empowerment because they’re controlling it
Stanley
Terms of Promiscuity
David Rosewarne (1984)
Coined the term ‘Estuary English’ (EE)
George Lakoff
Argues that we speak in shared metaphors
Peter Trudgill
Norwich speech study (1970s)
William Labov
NYC department store study
K . Malcolm Petyt
Study in Bradford (1985) based on the omission of /h/ dropping
James Milroy
Social Network study (1970s) based in inner city Belfast
Brown & Levinson
Satisfying face, politeness