A DAYS WORK

• An English teacher compared their conversations to different people for a day
• talking to wife

  wife tells him to ‘put bins out’ he replies ‘yes love’

  supports idea that men and women are more alike than they are different
• waking daughter

  stern father identity

  ’wakey wakey’
• picking up newspaper

  role as customer - exchange pleasantries with shop owner, small talk (weather) ‘cheers mate’

  downwardly converged - accommodated language to that of shop owner
• in school

  style switch in workplace

  ‘Morning‘ g-dropping from cleaner, copies back

  ’Morning’ to deputy head - upwardly converge due to power structure
• teaching

  repertoire as teacher

  occasionally tries to be cool, different age and status makes people uncomfortable so returns to formal standard english
• English colleagues

  all from different backgrounds but joke around and are informal with each other