Put this on a few other threads but here are the ones I've memorised:
Theorists (that I've learnt about in class) -
Power - Wareing 1999 (3 types of power - political, personal,social group)
- Fairclough (Power behind/in discourse)
- Deborah Tannen (political correctness)
Occupation - Sinclair and Coulthard (initiation,response,feedback theory)
- Wareing (power in the workplace)
- Work talk theory (Lakoff?)
Accent - Trudgill (Norwich N pronunciation theory)
- Workman (hierarchy of accents by intelligence around the UK)
Gender - 4 D's (difference, diversity, deficit, dominance models)
- Dale Spender (feminism numerous theories there lol)