Video 1:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpz4dm0bHXg

social factors:

the participants: adults, males and females, lawyers, educated, middle class, white American (the
speakers and listeners) and an Afro-American woman (listener).

the setting: in workplace, in a trails conducted by the boss and other lawyers working in the company to
take a decision on a case of a lawyer who lied about his qualification.

the function: give information, defending, take a decision.

The status scale:

The speaker addressing his superior. And the afro-amrican woman is the boss and speaking to her
subordinates.

The formality:

High formal.

Two functional/referential and effective function scale:

High information

High effective since it effect the decision they will make about the speaker.

video 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ky3KiiUK_D0

social factors:

the participants: adults, males and females, educated, middle class, white Americans.

the setting: in friend house having dinner together, they are close friends in addition to a friend’s
parents.

the function: express feelings

The status scale:

They are equal except the parents are superiors.

The formality:

Informal

Two functional/referential and effective function scale:

High information

Low effective.