Power

• Influential Power


  Words (how you conduct yourself)
• Instrumental Power


  Status (e.g, teacher threatening with detentions)
• Powerful Participant


  The speaker with a higher status in a given context, able to impose a degree of power.
• Less Powerful Participant


  A speaker with less status, subject to constraints imposed by more powerful participants.
• Speech Community


  A group of two or more members who use a common version of language- regional, cultural or occupational.