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Language acquisition theorists

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Jean aitchinson
Jeanne chall
Chomsky
Kroll
B.F. Skinner
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Language and social contexts theorists

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Bernstein
Labov
Milroy
Trudgill

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Conversation/social contexts theorists

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Brown and Levinson
Howard Giles
Irving Goffman
Grice

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Language and gender theorists

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Cheshire
Lakoff
Spender
Zimmerman and west

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Register theorists

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David crystal

Halliday

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What theory did brown and levinson develop

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Politeness strategies in conversation designed to save face and reduce the impact of face threatening acts.
They came up with four politeness strategies

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