1. Do you believe that your name influences the way others see you and/or how you view yourself? If so, how?
2. How do your accent, dialect, and use of regional vocabulary reflect the cultures you have been part of? Do you change between different dialects and vocabularies when you interact with different types of people? If so, how and why?
3. Observe a causal conversation and make a mental note of how the participants display "powerful" and "powerless" speech patterns as well as convergence and divergence. Describe the patterns you observe and what effects they seem to have on the conversation.
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