This page is quite 'difficult', but it uses a lot of ideas we've met in the first year. You can skim most of it, and don't worry - it's university-level stuff. But do stop at this diagram:
It organises speech functions in a useful way: you're either Giving something, or Demanding it when you speak; and it's either Information (statement, question) or Goods/Services (offer, command). And either you're the one Initiating these functions, or you're Responding.
Using these categories to classify a conversation can help reveal the Field, the Function and the Tenor of the discussion, reveal who's in power, and more.
http://coppock-violi.com/web/Project/web2/Epistemology3.html
