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Top Girls
Task A - Our answer
Win, who works for the Top Girls employment agency, is interviewing Louise
in order to find out how best to advise her. As controller of the interview
she is in a relatively powerful position institutionally. But her role
is to help and advise Louise, to be supportive towards her, which lessens
the power differential somewhat. Nonetheless, in turf-taking terms Win
is in control, taking up the initiating, questioning role in the conversation,
and controlling the topic.
What seems odd about this interaction is that in spite of the fact that
Louise has come to the agency for help she seems extremely defensive when
answering Win's questions. As a consequence of this, Win, who starts by
asking the questions she needs to have answered in a relatively indirect
and polite way, has to become more and more pushy and direct as the conversation
proceeds. This sets up some issues we feel need to be resolved later in
the text - why is Louise acting in this way, and how will the relationship
between Win and Louise develop?
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