• Includes:
– Power relations:
• Unequal: father/daughter, doctor/patient,
teacher/student
• Equal: friend/friend, student/student
– Formality: formal/informal
Informal: I handed my essay in kinda late coz my kids got sick.
Formal: The reason for the late submission of my essay was the illness
of my children.
– Closeness: distant/neutral/close: